Is this really still true? I have not been in the US for a few years, but at least in many of the European and Asian countries I've been in, this just is not a thing. I have noticed that in places like Korea and Japan, local aggregator sites are still popular/crawled by Google as the results for search/maps, but even my colleagues, Tokyo natives, use the same aggregator sites when I'm visiting and we're looking for a place to eat.

Facebook feels pervasive, sure, but from my POV it's still contained to North America, and the influence elsewhere is waning.

I think he mean that for small business facebook is stadart nowadays.

A lot of small shop owners in east europe have only facebook page with location and hours and some updates.

And I can't blame them but there's fact that every platform becomes shit after gaining popularity or goes down if not. And people without technical skills are feeding facebook with this situation.

Would be nice for domain sellers to give free single page generator with basic info and free hosting for this html page attached to domain.

> One particular annoyance (present in this post) is the FB pages.

Or how about Pinterest?

I've tried to make Google keep Pinterest pages out of my search results, but somehow Google does not want to improve my "search experience" even though they explicitly say they do.