This is a short article that exists because the claim it addresses is everywhere.
The measurement
Across 498 records in three verticals, there were zero email strings. Not a low rate: none. Checked in the search response and again on the individual place page, in case the field appeared only on the detail view. It does not.
Where other tools get them
From somewhere else, necessarily. The usual route is the business website — which Google does publish, in the website field — crawled afterwards for a contact address. Another is joining against a third-party contact database. A third is inference from a domain: guessing info@ and hoping.
Why the provenance matters
Because those three routes have different accuracy and different obligations. A crawled address is as good as the page it came from. A joined one inherits somebody else's collection basis. An inferred one is a guess wearing the shape of a fact, and the place that guess lands is a real person's inbox.
Presenting any of them as “Google Maps data” without saying which is the part that is wrong, more than the collection itself.
If you need business emails
Then you need a second step with its own provenance, its own accuracy figure and its own compliance position — and it should be documented as a second step rather than folded into the first. The countries this Actor refuses outright are refused for a related reason — the eight-country list.
