Improve reviews reliability on Google Maps

[#1]

Hi guys,

I would like to share ideas about how to improve reviews reliability on google Maps. In fact, there are lot of reviews on Google Maps. The problem is that some reviews are real, some are good, some are bad but some reviews are fake. These fake reviews deceive futur customers about the place.... The last but not the least, some fake contributors get paid for such reviews. This is for me a big issue.

So let brainstorm on this issue in order to improve reviews reliability!

Here are my thoughts and suggestions about this issue:

- Upload proof of experience:

When someone make a review, Google Maps proposes to upload photos. There should be another option that could be call for example "Proof of experience". The reviewer would then have the obligation to upload a photo of the front of the shop or the bill of the hotel, restaurant or monument.

The moderation could be done by a software and manual moderation would be on rejected reviews and flag reviews.

Profils with too many fake proofs of experience would be  excluded.

- Posting reviews to be possible only when "my travel" option is switched on:

As many fake reviews are made by people that have never been to the place reviewed, it should be only possible to make review when the place has been visited.

It will limite the quantity of reviews but will improve the quality.

What do you think? Have you got any suggestions?

See you

Jul

[Thimon]

It seems like a great idea and I like the idea of having higher quality reviews.

However I think you overlooked the people that use their laptop or desktop to view google maps and leave reviews.

[Guyco]

It might be a great idea but there will always be some to bybass the system. And sometimes, you don't have the possibility to take a photo. Let's see what the others have to say about it.

[uavalentine]

Thank you for sharing this information @Julien44 ! 

I wondered how to prove my existence that Google maps asked me twice for now, but I didn’t get yet how to do it texhnicslly once I don’t see the message any more. Just upload the picture of the place/bill/whatever? 

[Atsukot]

Hi @Julien44, thank you for sharing this idea. It is not something the team is able to implement at this time; therefore, I will change the status to "Closed".