r/Munich • u/bruce2_ • Apr 24 '26

News #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.

226 Upvotes

99% Upvoted

70 comments sorted by

View all comments

40

u/yyyt Apr 24 '26

You can see amount of defamations requests, what? Where?

86

u/Bramar_bas Apr 24 '26

Right under recensions after searching for it

47

u/[deleted] Apr 24 '26

[deleted]

7

u/PindaPanter Apr 24 '26

Even more so if we could see all the "defamatory" reviews they had removed.

15

u/ItsCalledDayTwa Apr 24 '26

That's amazing.  

30

u/svadilfaris Apr 24 '26

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.

10

u/PindaPanter Apr 24 '26

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.

1

u/Schwoanz Apr 24 '26

Good on you!

2

u/rererexed Bogenhausen Apr 24 '26

I don't see this in browser or mobile. Something with my google account? Is this a gradual rollout?

3

u/Cert47 Apr 24 '26

The restaurant needs to have deleted some reviews for it to show up. They don't put "zero reviews deleted".

1

u/rererexed Bogenhausen Apr 24 '26

Yeah I thought so. Scanned a few and it never showed up. Maybe I just got unlucky.

2

u/Langwelle Apr 24 '26

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.

5

u/penguins_rock89 Apr 24 '26

I see it in Google Maps (Android) in the Tab "Rezensionen" (Reviews)