#google reviews

[catandgirlcomic]

A brief history of reviewing things on the internet. vol. I

[hometoursandotherstuff]

Let's hear it for the Atlantic Ocean.

[citrine-queen]

What a wretched soul

[monkeymeghan]

Every once in a while I check the Google reviews for my store, just to see what people are saying. I just checked, and was personally named in a really great review. It makes me feel really good when I can have a positive impact on someone’s day. :)

[longreads]

The Strangely Beautiful Experience of Google Reviews - Longreads

Glimpses of humanity in an unlikely corner of the internet.

I slept under the overpass that night, and in the morning, I wrote a review: “Reasonably good bridge. A little loud for sleeping.” I gave it four stars. After I set off on my bike, I couldn’t stop thinking about it. Because of Google Reviews — because multiple people took the time to review this squat bridge in the middle of nowhere — I felt like I was part of some shared human experience, the newest member of an obscure club. Maybe the other reviewers would disagree, but this moment felt powerful, like seeing other people’s names etched into a park bench or finding yourself deeply moved by the graffiti inside a public bathroom stall. But it was also weird: This tool for consumer reviews had become a digital guestbook for anything and everything in the world. 

After that experience at Puente Las Bramonas, I started looking for reviews everywhere. Three stars for an 18th-century governor’s mansion in New Jersey (“very clean old and haunted,” Brianna Baker wrote). Two stars for a shop selling natural handcrafted products in Prince Edward Island (apparently they sell too much tea tree oil, which is toxic to dogs). Four stars for the Environmental Protection Agency office in Chicago (“great time,” writes Ryan Shippen). Hospitals and government agencies are frequent targets, with Google Reviews serving as a form of protest against frustrating systems far bigger than ourselves. On the outskirts of Chicago, unhappy truckers have dragged the rating for a railyard dock down to 2.7 stars, giving insight into an unhappy drama of delayed and misplaced shipping containers and exasperated big rig operators.

The overwhelming crush of reviews — everything rated, every opinion commodified and digitized, every small subplot in life available for critique — borders on farcical.

What happens when you can rate the world around you on a five-star scale? We’re ringing in the new year with Will McCarthy’s wonderful essay on the strange, communal experience of Google Reviews.

[healthcaremarketingstrategy]

Google Reviews Decide Your Hospital’s First Impression

Before a patient meets your doctors, they meet your Google listing. Ratings, reviews, and responses quietly shape trust and credibility.

Even a top hospital loses patients if reviews look unmanaged or ignored. Responding to feedback, encouraging happy patients to review, and maintaining an active profile builds real trust. Today, Google reviews are reputation, marketing, and patient confidence all in one place.

Full blog :- When Your Hospital’s Google Reviews Become More Powerful Than Your Doctors

-HMS Consultants

[justanotherpanickinggay]

So when I first started using a wheelchair I realised that a lot of places claim they are accessible and then you get there and they're just not. So I started reviewing places on Google and I'm not writing mean reviews I'll just write like this place has a very narrow door so I was unable to get a wheelchair in. Or there is a step that is approximately 30cm to get to the disabled toilet. I'm not even basing my star ratings on accessibility. I'm basing them on whether I think the place was good. And the restaurants keep leaving passive aggressive comments on my reviews being like well actually we think we are accessible. Like I'm sorry but if you say online that you are accessible and you are not accessible of course I'm gonna say that. Have you tried to get into your restaurant in a wheelchair? No okay then shut the hell up. Because going anywhere when you're disabled is a fricking nightmare and people need this information in advance a lot of times. Don't say you are accessible if you aren't accessible.