When I do a Google search for my business name, Google suggests ‘Did you mean:’ with some other company name. Is there anything we can do to keep that from happening?

Not that I know of, at least not right now. There’s nothing where we have a form that you can fill out and say ‘This is bad’.

You can try finding our various help or web forums and reporting it there. The hope is that over time we learn that sort of thing automatically.

We have data pushes of content and then we try to improve it. I don’t have a good answer in terms of ‘Here’s a simple form that you can fill out’, but hopefully over time Google learns that ‘Oh, this suggestion is not as helpful’ or ‘This is a real business’. Anything that you can to do build a reputation of your business so it’s more well-known, so you can have a lot of links pointing to you; you’re more easily found on the web.

Those are all signals that we can say ‘Oh, this is a really valid query’ and not something that we have to show a spelling suggestion for.

But, there’s no special form that you can fill out or anything like that.

Sorry.

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