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[unable to retrieve full-text content] Japanese doctors demand damages from Google over “groundless” reviews  Yahoo Finance Japanese doctors demand damages from Google over “groundless” reviews  The Hill Japanese doctors demand damages from Google over “groundless” reviews  Yahoo! Voices Source link

Google has a new review algorithm that the search company says it better anf faster at taking down fake reviews from local listings in Google Search and Google Maps. “In 2023, this new algorithm helped us take down 45% more fake reviews than the year before,” Google announced. Google receives a lot of contributions to its Google Maps and local listings, this includes reviews, photos, updates to listings and more. In fact, Google said it receives “around 20 million contributions per… Source link

Google has accidentally removed legit, policy-abiding reviews submitted by Local Guides from Google Maps. Google acknowledged the issue and said it is working on reinstating those reviews over the next few weeks. What happened. According to Google’s Local Guides Connect blog, Google said they are “constantly improving our moderation system to keep policy-violating content off the map.” With those efforts, Google said its “protections took down more than expected policy abiding… Source link

Google Developer Advocate Alan Kent says product reviews linking to multiple sellers may get a ranking boost over reviews linking to one. Kent confirmed this on Twitter in response to a question about Google’s documentation on how to write high-quality product reviews. There’s a line in the document that reads: “Consider including links to multiple sellers to give the reader the option to purchase from their merchant of choice.” Does that mean a website is disadvantaged if it only… Source link

Will McCarthy | Longreads | January 2023 | 12 minutes (3,313 words) Somewhere near the center of Nevada, on the western slope of the Toiyabe Range, there’s a little meadow beside a creek running down from the mountains. In 2019, long before I had ever been there, a man named James Fredette drove his mobile home down the gravel road from the highway and went fishing. It was a lucky day: He caught three big rainbow trout. Then, as the light turned golden and began to fade from… Source link

Google is fixing a bug that caused reviews to go missing from Google Business Profiles. Google confirms reviews are getting restored. Google’s Search Liaison, Danny Sullivan, announced on Twitter in reply to Mike Blumenthal, who says he reported the bug a week ago. Our apologies here. The team is aware of this bug and has been actively addressing it. Many reviews have been restored, and that work will continue. — Google SearchLiaison (@searchliaison) November 15, 2022 Blumenthal isn’t… Source link

Google’s September 2022 product reviews update is now fully rolled out. Google said this update only applied to English-language product reviews. It took six days to complete, beginning Sept. 20 and concluding Sept. 26. This marks the end of a flurry of Google algorithm updates that started with the helpful content update (Aug. 25 to Sept. 9), continued with the September 2022 core update (and Sept. 12 to 26) and concluded with the fifth version… Source link

Google released the fifth version of the Google product reviews update on September 20th at around 4 am ET, this one is named September 2022 product reviews update. Google told us a couple of weeks ago to expect this update, which is unusual in terms of being so soon after the most recent product reviews update, which was the July 2022 product reviews update. This is the fifth product reviews update, a search ranking algorithm update targeted at… Source link

Google and Yelp appear to have suspended the ability to post reviews for some crisis pregnancy centers listed on those platforms, which some activists say could prevent them from providing accurate information about the centers which are known for attempting to persuade women seeking abortions to not get them. Google appears to have also suspended the ability to post reviews of some abortion providers like Planned Parenthood. The suspension of the ability to post reviews was first noticed by… Source link

Consider the last time you searched for an Italian food restaurant in a new city. You’re unfamiliar with the area and don’t have any personal recommendations to rely on. You likely open your phone, conduct a Google search for [italian food near me] and find several restaurants. Do you choose the first restaurant that pops up? The answer to this is probably no. Instead, you will most likely look up customer reviews and select the restaurant where patrons have had a positive… Source link