Seems to be a good sign for the German users of Google Maps. Now when looking at a places reviews you can see just how many were flagged by the business owner or their authorized representative.
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Posted by TotallySavageSzym
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Damn, i would love to know who is #1
Where can you see that or enable it?
Definitely a step in the right direction! I have to admit, this is a very clever solution.
huge W, I’m all for transparency
That is so genius UX.
I love it!
My corner Döner shop has between 151 and 200 review removed for diffamation!
That’s great.
And the first thing google’s done in quite a while that isn’t just evil and backwards but instead actually provides users with a little more information rather than just useless slop.
I checked Mozzamo Gassnerstr where they removed one of my reviews, but I don’t see that. Maybe I need to update maps
Edit: updated Maps but still don’t see it
Also checked Großwirt on Volkartstr, another restaurant that reviewed a 3 star review, and don’t see anything there either.
Will check the Browser. Might be just a delay on my app side
“Uno reverse” on all the businesses misusing this defamation rule.
Well played Google 👏🏼.
Ahh okay, it shows up if at least one review has removed for “defamation”. What’s surprising is, I expected it to show up for some more places.
Actually a nice feature for once, neat 😀
Finally, only in Germany my negative reviews were deleted… I don’t trust Google Maps in Germany anymore. But I don’t see this feature in my Google Maps 🧐 anyone else?
I wish it would show a %. I wrote a comment few days ago that got deleted too. I think they are removing about 70% of the reviews at the moment (there is a lot of bad reviews that keeps being deleted)
Is there a setting to enable that? I’ve updated the app and checked a couple of restaurants that removed my review, but there’s nothing shown
🙌
This is a great development. I had wondered why they didn’t do this. I just found my first local restaurant with 100-150 reviews removed in the last year and a 4.9 rating. Needless to say, I will not be frequenting this establishment.
Someone should write a browseraddon that displays those as 1 Stars
Can’t wait to see how these businesses will complain about this now.
This is extremely important. Now we will definitely know where not to go. I hope they don’t have issues with that
https://support.google.com/contributionpolicy/answer/16997273
You can read more about this policy and the number is in the last 365 days only, not a total count.
We should all boycott places with removed reviews.
Wouldn’t that by itself be a defamation? They remove reviews based solely on receiving a complaint – it’s not like in example picture there were 51 court decisions clearly ruling the defamation and explicitly ordering Google to remove those reviews?
I would not visit litigious owners
removed reviews **over the past year!!**
There are stores and businesses that have had 100 reviews removed out of 200. lol.
and i think it is caped to “more than 250”
Would be awesome to have some scraper to collect data for top lists for each major city.
None of the places abusing this to keep the reviews high deserves any organic traffic.
I can’t see this feature in my version. Strange. No updates for the app available and current state iOS.
What system did you find this feature on? Because I know for sure that at least one of the Döner Kebab restaurants removed quite a lot of bad reviews.
Finally!!