What Places Scout provides
Places Scout was a local SEO platform for agencies and multi-location businesses. Yext acquired it in February 2025 and used its technology to launch Yext Scout; the former Places Scout website now redirects to Yext.
The successor product combines local-search and AI-search competitive intelligence. The historical Places Scout service measured Google Search and Maps visibility, but should not be presented as a still-independent SaaS with standalone pricing.
Where the redirect matters
Organic local-result URLs can be exposed to /goto. Google Maps and local-pack products may rely more heavily on place IDs and Business Profile entities, so the effect can differ by report. Customers should test organic, map, pack and grid outputs separately instead of assuming one result represents the entire platform.
/goto?url=[hash]resolve + attributepublisher URL
What Places Scout has said
No public /goto response foundNo Places Scout or Yext /goto statement was found. Yext acquired Places Scout in February 2025 and launched Yext Scout from its technology; the former Places Scout site now redirects to Yext, so it is not a still-independent SaaS with a current response.
Yext says Scout combines local-search competitive intelligence with its structured-data platform, but does not explain /goto resolution. Map and place entities can cover some local tracking; ordinary organic landing pages still need a recovered destination.
The acquisition and launch are direct provider facts, not validation of the 2026 redirect. No /goto-specific URL sample, benchmark, incident record or audit was found, and the old-domain redirect prevents inferring standalone product continuity from older material.
No /goto-specific price or quota change was found. There is no current public standalone Places Scout price: the old service has been absorbed into Yext’s enterprise offer.
What is known — and what is not
The acquisition and launch are direct provider facts, not validation of the 2026 redirect. No /goto-specific URL sample, benchmark, incident record or audit was found, and the old-domain redirect prevents inferring standalone product continuity from older material.
What customers should monitor
- Organic landing pages missing while map entities remain visible
- Uneven results between list and geo-grid reports
- Longer scan times or changes in grid depth
What should remain outside the change
- Citation management
- Review and Business Profile workflows that do not parse organic links