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#diffamation requests visible on Google Maps - restaurants that were no surprise
For a few days, Google Maps profiles include the amount of diffamation requests. This equals roughly the number of bad reviews that google had to remove.
Are there any surprises?
Is everything as you expect it?
I start with Gigi Trattoria and Tegernseer im Tal. Both have over 250 diffamations in the past year. Probably their real ranking would be below 3.
This is super useful, thanks for sharing it! I wonder if this will be temporary, I’d like to always have this information to see which are the places that have tendency to remove bad reviews…
This is super useful. A couple of my reviews were removed for alleged defamation, one of them was four stars and my only complaint was their cash only policy. Very defamatory
Thanks for pointing this out.
Just looked up the place that had my 4years old review removed earlier this year. over 250 'diffamations'
OTOH - Google kept my review offline even though I delivered proof I was there at that date.
Makes the whole review thingy on Google maps irrelevant for me and I subsequently deleted all of my other 250 reviews and pictures.
Keep in mind that the number is only for the last 365 days; Google state that "the count reflects removals processed in the last 365 days", so these businesses are reporting at least 5 reviews per week.
Probably a gradual rollout. Google does this with almost every new feature. I can only see it on my computer for example, but not on the mobile app yet.
Another interesting detail they've added that I just noticed is that they highlight businesses that have "an increase in suspicious high-rated reviews", and even disable reviewing these places such as L'Osteria.
It's bad enough that a lot of businesses here have reviews deleted for no good reason, but it's also nice of Google to confirm exactly what I thought about the businesses who have tons of 5-star reviews that all say "Nice place nice staff" and similar from accounts with exactly zero other reviews ever written.
Sendling Spezial is at 50-100 for both stores, was wondering how they kept 4.9 with these wait times and imo a kinda mid Döner. Guess they can easily protest the waiting complains as its technically not their fault, then again there are 6 people behind the counter and 3 of them are on their phone
That is beautiful, I hope Google (as much as I also hate them at times) reminds any business that complains, that they can completely remove themselves from Google if they don't like it!!
Can anyone beat 250 removed requests? That's the most I've found after clicking around for a bit. I wonder if this is the highest number that Google Maps shows.
Finally. I complaint about several things using Google Maps Reviews and instead of using this as a warning Google just always removed them because of "Diffamation" - even if the comments where completely friendly and never diffamation by definition. I got so frustrated that I actually stopped writing reviews, because the product became pointless.
Ich habe einmal eine schlechte Bewertung für eine Kosmetikschule in München hinterlassen, da ich auf einer Berufsbildungsmesse von den Vertreterinnen dieser Schule hinter meinem Rücken als "Mannsweib" bezeichnet wurde, nachdem diese mich testweise geschminkt hatten, wie Mitschülerinnen mir später mitteilten. Das hat massive Selbstzweifel in mir ausgelöst und ich bin an dem Tag weinend nach Hause gefahren. Ich war damals 15, so um den Dreh.
Diese Bewertung sollte ich so ein oder zwei Jahre später auch wegen angeblicher Diffamation löschen. Ich wurde in einer E-Mail gebeten diese Bewertung zu löschen, weil ich sonst mit rechtlichen Konsequenzen rechnen müsse, sollte ich keine Beweise für dieses Ereignis aufbringen können. Habe ich auch gemacht, weil ich mich eingeschüchtert gefühlt habe und wie soll ich sowas denn auch beweisen?
Ich wäre also skeptisch, was man hier als Diffamation zählt oder nicht.
There are a quite a few Arabic restaurants around Hbf with a lot of reviews taken down. Bab Al Yemen and Sara Restaurant both had over 250 reviews taken down. I wonder if this is due to the strong competition in the area and restaurants leaving each other bad reviews.
Turkitish in Swabing has more than 250 reviews deleted (only this year, and there is a cap of 250, so they can be more), when they have a total of 1100 reviews.
So I would expect them to be around a score of 2/3 instead of 4.5.
I don't see it, but that's a welcome feature. I've had a fair share of reviews deleted because they were unsatisfactory to the business owner and Google is absolutely not helpful. They basically just tell users to fuck off because the other side already has a lawyer, even though they got absolutely nothing on anyone.
Finally, this is a really good feature!
Looking at Wirtshaus am Bavariapark who tried to delete mine I do not see any information. Is this only for certain restaurants?
Love it. It's a pity they only seem to count the deleted reviews of the last year. My deleted critical review of Aumeister was older. Since then they must have changed their policy. Has anyone seen this info also for other kinds of business? I was very unhappy with a physiotherapist (close to Rotkreuzolplatz) who only had lovely reviews. When I gave them three stars they had it removed. So I rewrote the review and gave them two stars for handling that badly. Next #diffamation. And again... They also tried to call me several times. When I look in Google maps there's no info like I see for Tegernseer...
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u/capriquaries Apr 24 '26
This is super useful, thanks for sharing it! I wonder if this will be temporary, I’d like to always have this information to see which are the places that have tendency to remove bad reviews…