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Data Axle
The United States business-data aggregator that appears in Google's Maps provider list and feeds many directories.
What Data Axle means
The United States business-data aggregator that appears in Google's Maps provider list and feeds many directories. Its listings can be searched by phone number and claimed by the business; its site refuses datacenter addresses, so a scanner records it as refused rather than as no listing.
What Data Axle can and cannot support
| It can support | It cannot support |
|---|---|
| The United States business-data aggregator that appears in Google's Maps provider list and feeds many directories. | Its listings can be searched by phone number and claimed by the business; its site refuses datacenter addresses, so a scanner records it as refused rather than as no listing. |
Where Data Axle comes up on this site
- 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 two US business-data suppliers. You can check one of them in a minute.Corrections, 2026-09-25: Acxiom is also a named US supplier (our 2026-09-23 guide said Data Axle was the only one).
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Questions about Data Axle
What is Data Axle?
The United States business-data aggregator that appears in Google's Maps provider list and feeds many directories.
What does Data Axle not show or guarantee?
Its listings can be searched by phone number and claimed by the business; its site refuses datacenter addresses, 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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