Google has up to date its Google Maps contributor tips, particularly disallowing a enterprise to incentivize those that go away destructive opinions to take away these opinions. Beforehand, the rules solely prohibited incentivizing leaving optimistic opinions.
The up to date guideline may be discovered over right here beneath the misleading content material and faux engagement part. It now reads “Contributions to Google Maps ought to mirror a real expertise at a spot or enterprise. Faux engagement will not be allowed and will likely be eliminated.” Google continued “Content material that has been incentivized by a enterprise in change for reductions, free items and/or companies.” And the brand new part now says “This contains service provider requests for revision or elimination of a destructive evaluate by supplied reductions, free items or companies, or different incentives.”
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This was noticed first by Pleasure Hawkins on Twitter.
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