You can now report entire profiles for abuse on Google Maps

فكرة جميلة ستساعد في تكوين مصداقية للمعلومات على الموقع

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There are so many of them

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Hi, ah that’s a good idea, because effectively it will reduce irrelevant content that misleads users

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Hello @TraciC . I’m From Pakistan. And I’m a 6 Star Google Map Local Guide.

The Reason Why I’m Posting this. It Really Very Serious. Some of Our Community Members are Doing Extremly Fake Work. Placing Fake and Irrelevant Reviews. And Most of The TIime They Posted Negative Reviews which is Very Disturbing for the Business owners. They Gave the Unrecoverable Damage to their Business. And if we Look at the Consumers Side. So it’s also harmful to them. they get the Wrong Idea about that Business.
In Short Line. This Type of Fake Reviews and Ireelevent work Destroy the Peoples Trust on Google Maps, Its Services, and Suggestions.

Google, Must Have to do something to save that all.

EXTREMELY SORRY @TraciC . I KNOW AM COMMENTING TOTALLY IRRELEVANT. I’M NEW ON CONNECT. I FIND A LOT TO CONTACT GOOGLE REGARDING THIS ISSUE BUT I CAN’T. IN MY POINT OF VIEW THIS SUCH A SERIOUS ISSUE. AND HERE IN MY COUNTRY PEOPLE DID THIS SHIT TOO MUCH. I WANT TO SAVE PEOPLES FROM THE WRONG AND FAKE OPINIONS OF NON-QUALIFIED GOOGLE LOCAL GUIDE.

Regards,

Aamir Imtiaz,

Pakistan.

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Hello @AamirImtiaz ,

Thanks for reaching out to us! We appreciate your concern about the quality of the contibutions on Maps. You can now follow the instructions for our recently introduced new feature: You can now report entire profiles for abuse on Google Maps.

To keep Connect more organized, I just moved your post to that article.

I also wanted to inform you that you don’t need to tag our Google Administrator TraciC, whenever you need urgent assistance, please tag one of the Google Moderators instead. Thanks.

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Semakin cemerlang google maps. Sekarang suda bisa melaporkan yang berbahu tidak pantas. Saya sangat suka ini. Semoga kalian sehat semuanya.dan terus mengembangkanya lagi.

Useful indeed.

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Hi

I strictly follows the maps to find some areas I don’t know to reach there, but a few times I found that map take me to a different place, this maybe because a few local guides feed in the wrong information. Also one thing I am experiencing that my address shown on my maps is not took me to the right address even if I have reported this issue when google maps ask me if you reached your place easily. Still my actual address shown on google is around 300 meters away from my actual house.

  • A few local guides not feeding in right information which resulted in landing people at a wrong place other than they wanted to land. I think this should not be done.
  • Also I found a few guides gives false feedback or information about a place like restaurants or other shops or hotels just because of personal grudges with them.

I would like everyone to be not biased to anyone and give fair feedbacks.

Let us all help the community in a positive way and bring all them together. Thanks

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Hi,

Thanks for that improvement. It is a step up…!

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Can a mod please get in touch with me, I have identified a user with multiple accounts who is inserting advertisements into thousands of published photo spheres. I have reported two of the profiles but would like confirmation this is being looked into. Thanks.

@KlaudiyaG , @MashaPS , @DeniGu

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Hi @dodonnell ,

It appears you’ve followed the guidelines shared by @Rodrigo_P thoroughly. As mentioned in his publication, the best way to report abusive profiles is via Google Maps and not Connect. You can rest assured that every entry is been looked into by the relevant team and after the investigation in completed they will take any necessary action(s) if needed. However, bear in mind that this may take some time and the results will not be shared publicly.

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Fellow LGs, have you had success when reporting entire profiles and what timescales have been involved?

Did anyone from Google reach out to you for clarification on your reason for making the report?

I came across a level 8 LG posting incredibly dubious content (multiple identical stock images posted to many locations, images that are just self portraits, odd reviews and just generally bad content / spam) and started reporting individual images before realising the who account needed looking at.

I was just curious if the process is working as I’m led to believe we get no feedback on our report so are we supposed to just keep rechecking to see if the user is suspended from LG?

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Great!

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Thanks @Rodrigo_P Useful indeed.

:rose: :rose: :rose: :+1:t2:

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please can some help me to fine this address if it it is a scam or not 1303 Greene Avenue Suite 200 Westmount, QC, H3Z 2A7

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@alokeme - it would appear that a Google moderator has deemed the feedback myself and others made about your submissions as “disrespectful”. If you read them in this way I apologise as that wasn’t my intention.

I dispute this as they weren’t disrespectful in any way, just valid feedback from a fellow LG but at the same time respect the decision the moderator has made.

I wish you every success with your continued rise to the top using a points scoring technique that works for you.

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Can i ask why you always have to use email when you report a pictures and you logged in with your Google account anyway? It is very hard work when there is 100 wrong located pictures.

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Great.Thank you very much for this feature.

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Well done.

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@Rodrigo_P Thanks for sharing such a great news

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