Google announced last week that they updated their guidelines and policies for writing reviews on organizations found in Google Maps / Places.
Google’s reviews update may not be all that significant beyond needing to add mention of their newly-introduced protocol allowing business owners to respond to reviews. They probably took the opportunity to clarify the text while they were at it.
However, there are reasons to suspect that there could have been additional motives behind Google’s alteration of the guidelines. (more…)
A few days ago, a New York Times 
