Google Categorizes Reviews By Type Of Reviewer

Jul 27, 2023 - 7:11 am 5 by
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Google seems to be testing categorizing the review by the type of review in the Google Maps and Local reviews section. So if you have a couple on vacation leaving a review versus a solo traveler or family, it will say so.

Here is a screenshot of this from Grant Austin on Twitter:

Google Local Reviews By Type

This reminds me of a similar feature on reviews back last year that looked like this:

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Have you seen these before?

Forum discussion at Twitter.

 

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