{"id":14664,"date":"2013-04-10T18:38:36","date_gmt":"2013-04-10T22:38:36","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blumenthals.com\/blog\/?p=14664"},"modified":"2013-04-10T22:27:13","modified_gmt":"2013-04-11T02:27:13","slug":"google-notes-that-recent-review-take-downs-might-be-reversed","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blumenthals.com\/blog\/2013\/04\/10\/google-notes-that-recent-review-take-downs-might-be-reversed\/","title":{"rendered":"Google Notes That Recent Review Take Downs Might Be Reversed"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Jade <a href=\"http:\/\/productforums.google.com\/forum\/#!category-topic\/business\/9dim4yzyh4o\">noted<\/a> in the forums that:<\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 30px;\"><em><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignright\" alt=\"review take down\" src=\"http:\/\/cdn0.sbnation.com\/imported_assets\/225895\/gsp-takedown-2_medium.jpg\" width=\"250\" height=\"169\" \/><\/em><\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 30px;\"><em>Just letting you know that we&#8217;ve found a technical issue last week with reviews where some were incorrectly taken down. We&#8217;re working on fixing the issue, so sit tight!<\/em><\/p>\n<p>This was in response to the spate of reports of <a href=\"http:\/\/blumenthals.com\/blog\/2013\/04\/07\/local-weekend-update\/\">reviews being taken down<\/a> last week in what appeared like a reincarnation of the <a href=\"http:\/\/blumenthals.com\/blog\/2012\/09\/24\/asking-for-reviews-post-apocalypse\/\">review spam algo from hell<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Barry Schwartz <a href=\"http:\/\/www.seroundtable.com\/google-maps-reviews-april-16621.html\">noted<\/a> that he felt that Google was confirming a bug. A bug implies to me an error in underlying code that causes an error. These take downs looked so much like the <a href=\"http:\/\/blumenthals.com\/blog\/2012\/07\/30\/google-local-and-review-issues\/\">previous level<\/a> of take downs with the review algo last fall, that I think assuming it was a bug would be making too many assumptions. Note that Jade said &#8220;we&#8217;ve found a technical issue&#8221;. That could be anything from the janitor tripping over the cord to an engineer turning a switch that cut a new review algo loose again. A more likely explanation in my book is that Google was &#8220;upgrading&#8221; the algo and it was more severe than had been predicted.<\/p>\n<p>Regardless it does appear that many of the reviews that were taken down will hopefully coming back <a href=\"http:\/\/blumenthals.com\/blog\/2013\/01\/31\/the-pendulum-swings-on-googles-review-spam-filtering-as-google-relaxes-filter\/\">similar to those returned<\/a> at the end of January. Remember though that not all of them returned.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Jade noted in the forums that: Just letting you know that we&#8217;ve found a technical issue last week with reviews where some were incorrectly taken down. We&#8217;re working on fixing the issue, so sit tight! This was in response to the spate of reports of reviews being taken down last week in what appeared like &#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":262,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[24,16],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-14664","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-google-plus","category-reviews"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blumenthals.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14664","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blumenthals.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blumenthals.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blumenthals.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/262"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blumenthals.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=14664"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/blumenthals.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14664\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":14668,"href":"https:\/\/blumenthals.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14664\/revisions\/14668"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blumenthals.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=14664"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blumenthals.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=14664"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blumenthals.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=14664"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}