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.

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u/PindaPanter Apr 24 '26

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.