Data Axle
A United States business-data compiler (formerly Infogroup and infoUSA) that sells business and consumer lists. Google licensed its listings from 2005 to 2013 and its old names still appear in Google's provider code, but Google's current business-listings notice names no US supplier.
What Data Axle does not show
Its listings site refuses datacenter addresses and blocks GPTBot and ChatGPT-User, so a scanner records it as refused rather than as no listing.
Where Data Axle comes up on this site
- Where Google and AI assistants get business data, and where Data Axle fitsEvery claim below links to its source, and every number about Data Axle comes from Data Axle's own pages, read on 9 October 2026.
- NAP consistency audit: phone, address and coordinatesEach source returns one of a few states: a listing found, no match, or a refusal, which happens when a directory refuses datacenter addresses outright; Data Axle, the aggregator that feeds Google's own business data, answers a scanner with 403 and answers…
- Google's Maps provider list has 793 names. Yelp is not one of them.INFOUSA and INFOGROUP are the same company under two of its names; it trades today as Data Axle.
- Google's Maps stack names its US business-data suppliers. You can check one of them in a minute.Eight of the nine businesses we checked rank in Google's map pack with no Data Axle record, and Google does not show the wrong address Data Axle holds for the ninth.
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Questions about Data Axle
What is Data Axle?
A United States business-data compiler (formerly Infogroup and infoUSA) that sells business and consumer lists. Google licensed its listings from 2005 to 2013 and its old names still appear in Google's provider code, but Google's current business-listings notice names no US supplier.
What does Data Axle not show or guarantee?
Its listings site refuses datacenter addresses and blocks GPTBot and ChatGPT-User, so a scanner records it as refused rather than as no listing.
Which area of the glossary does Data Axle belong to?
Content architecture and SEO: How pages, links and intent are organised so an entity is findable, and what a link or a structure can and cannot transfer.
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