Yesterday, one of the managers behind Google Maps, Kevin Reece (Director of Product, Google Maps) made an interesting blog post called Contributions create a more helpful map.
Some very fascinating facts and statistics about our work as Local Guides are revealed. Including:
One of our most passionate groups of contributors is the 120 million Local Guides across 24,000 cities and towns who are committed to making information about their communities on Google Maps more helpful and accurate.
Everyday people submit more than 20 million contributions to Google Maps
Sorting through the 20 million contributions we receive each day (that’s more than 7 billion contributions a year), in 2019 alone, our technologies and teams:
- Removed more than 75 million policy-violating reviews and 4 million fake business profiles thanks to refinements in our machine learning models and automated detection systems which are getting better at blocking policy-violating content and detecting anomalies for our operators to review
- Took down more than 580,000 reviews and 258,000 business profiles that were reported directly to us, as we make it easier for people to flag inappropriate content
- Reviewed and removed more than 10 million photos and 3 million videos that violated our content policies, as our operators and automated systems get better at catching policy-violating content, such as off-topic photos
- Disabled more than 475,000 user accounts as we improve our machine learning detection capabilities and develop expanded policies and training for our operators
Some of all these contributions and improvements came from us.
Kevin Reece also stated, Contributed content is an indispensable part of how we’re making Google Maps richer and more helpful for everyone.
This is one very rare instance where Google Maps Management officially (although indirectly) expresses their appreciation of what we do as Local Guides.
Thank you. We like being called helpful and indispensable, Kevin.
But we really would like you to also be present and available here on Connect, Kevin. Let your voice be heard by the Local Guides who crave and would love to hear more news from you and get encouragement from you on a regular basis.
Thanks