The policy to name a place

Happy New Year to you all.

Recently I have seen more and more users naming their own shop by adding their own keywords trying to increase the chance to showing on the searching result, trying to reach the consumers by their own way.

Looks creative, but it is make some obstruction to other users to review the map.

For example, the location I mention here,

https://goo.gl/maps/m1rVGkqkGwFwyL2RA

The name of the shop is

Okaeri NO.2 in English, the name in Chinese is 你回來了紳士食堂.

And after that is any kind of words that they hope people can find them.

日式居酒屋推薦/優質居酒屋推薦/部落客推薦台北居酒屋/信義安和站居酒屋/大安區串炸 串燒 深夜美食台北好吃串炸

translation
日式居酒屋推薦 Japanese style bar recommended
優質居酒屋推薦 Find Japanese style bar recommended
部落客推薦台北居酒屋 Blogger recommended Taipei Japanese style bar
信義安和站居酒屋 Near by Xinyi Anhe Station bar
大安區串炸 串燒 深夜美食 Da’an Area Fried BBQ late night supper
台北好吃串炸 Taipei’s Find Fried Food

Long ago, I will try to make a correction to this location, the system had approve my suggestion, that is good. But sometime later, the owners will change it again.

What I am trying to said is, do Google have any policy to dealing with this kind of situation?

Is this happening in your city as well?

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Hello @charles218

Yes, there are guidelines regarding how to name a place on Maps.

These are explained in Google My Business.

The link is here.

https://support.google.com/business/answer/3038177?hl=en

You can suggest an edit to modify the name in line with the guidelines.

However, as you stated, the owner may revert to the earlier one. If that happens, then you can highlight that through the send feedback route.

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Hi @C_T

Understood, thank you so much.

Hi @C_T

Unfortunately, I try to summit some of the correction, and the system reply not to accept the name which were obviously violated the guideline.

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Hello @charles218
Understand your apprehensions.

Even though we have suggested a correct edit & provided adequate data, the system may continue to look for more evidence.

You will get some clues regarding the reasons for acceptance or rejection of edits, in this article.

https://www.localguidesconnect.com/t5/Help-Desk/Why-is-my-edit-status-Pending-or-Not-Applied/ba-p/1079069

Nevertheless, we can always suggest a correction through the send feedback route.
Although, there wouldn’t be any credit of points, the data will get corrected.

I arranged one such change through that route, after my edit was rejected by the system.

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