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Google Review Guidelines Now Disallows Discouraging Negative Or Selectively Soliciting Positive Reviews

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4 months ago

October 10, 2022

Google Review Guidelines Now Disallows Discouraging Negative Or Selectively Soliciting Positive Reviews

Google has updated its Google Maps contributor guidelines to disallow “discouraging or prohibiting negative reviews, or selectively soliciting positive reviews from customers.”

This line was added to these guidelines under deceptive content and fake engagement section. Here is the new line that was added, “discouraging or prohibiting negative reviews, or selectively soliciting positive reviews from customers.”

The blue highlight is what was added, click to enlarge this screenshot:

I spotted this via Colan Nielsen on Twitter who wrote that he “received a notification that this page was updated. Not really new information but worth noting since Google is being more explicit about it.”

A few weeks ago, Google added to its guidelines where businesses were not allowed to incentivize those who leave negative reviews to remove those reviews.

So it seems Google is getting tougher with the review guidelines, really tough.

Forum discussion at Twitter.

Source: www.seroundtable.com

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Apple Maps Street View Camera Backpack

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February 6, 2023

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Here is a photo of some guy walking around Israel with an Apple Maps street view backpack. It was captured by Hillel Fuld the other day and posted on Twitter.

Google has its own street view backpack, which is more impressive to look at.

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Google’s Internal Menu System Tracks Googlers Food Preferences

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February 5, 2023

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Google Internal Menu System Tracks Food Preferences Tweets

A Googler shared screenshots of the output from the Google internal menu system where it told her that one day she avoids salades and then she must have had some salads to correct that and the next day it say she enjoys salad. I am just amazed Google tracks the food Googlers eat and offers suggestions.

Here are those tweets embedded:

Important update.

As much as I would like to be a conspiracy theorist and assume that my tweets are being monitored, seems the initial warning was just a bug. pic.twitter.com/FRbkw6QE0g

— Lara Levin (@TheLaraxSF) March 23, 2022

So… I think I have two preferences set on the menu… that I like soups and salads. I think the system inverted that to things I avoid. It is now fixed. Inadvertent shaming is over.

— Lara Levin (@TheLaraxSF) March 24, 2022

Haha, I think it’s just “here are the menus for the day”, and it’ll show you things you might like most at the top. It’s not that fancy 🙂

— Lara Levin (@TheLaraxSF) March 24, 2022

To be clear, it doesn’t track you! You can set favorites. And there was a bug 🙂

— Lara Levin (@TheLaraxSF) February 2, 2023

This is really not a photo of the day but close enough…

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Daniel Waisberg Hosts Lizzi Sassman & Martin Splitt At Google Tel Aviv

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February 5, 2023

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Daniel Waisberg Hosted Lizzi Sassman & Martin Splitt At Google Tel Aviv

A couple of months before John Mueller visited Daniel Waisberg at the Google Tel Aviv office, Lizzi Sassman and Martin Splitt of Google did as well. Here are the three smiling on the streets of Tel Aviv.

This was shared a while back on Twitter.

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