{"id":14914,"date":"2013-05-16T12:23:54","date_gmt":"2013-05-16T16:23:54","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blumenthals.com\/blog\/?p=14914"},"modified":"2013-05-16T12:30:33","modified_gmt":"2013-05-16T16:30:33","slug":"how-many-reviews-are-needed-to-show-stars-in-the-new-map-list-view","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blumenthals.com\/blog\/2013\/05\/16\/how-many-reviews-are-needed-to-show-stars-in-the-new-map-list-view\/","title":{"rendered":"How Many Reviews Are Needed to Show Stars in the New Map List View?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Peter Troast of <a href=\"http:\/\/www.energycircle.com\/\">EnergyCircle.com<\/a> <a href=\"http:\/\/blumenthals.com\/blog\/2013\/05\/15\/google-rolling-out-new-places-results-page\/#comment-629105\">asked<\/a> a great question in the comments to <a href=\"http:\/\/blumenthals.com\/blog\/2013\/05\/15\/google-rolling-out-new-places-results-page\/\">my post<\/a> about the new visuals for the (now named) Maps List View -aka Places Search- result:<\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 30px;\">Also seems like the # of reviews threshold is shifting for display. For zero reviews, &#8220;Be the first to review&#8221; appears right under company name. From 1-__, it looks as if nothing appears at all (in contrast to the old &#8220;3 Google Reviews.&#8221; I&#8217;ve seen a couple 5 review listings that displayed the new stars (yeah!), and several 8&#8217;s and 9&#8217;s, so it appears the 10 review threshold is coming down. Anyone figured out what the new threshold is? Certainly seems like nowheresville for 1-4.<\/p>\n<p>The answer is 5. It takes 5 reviews for Google to show the stars. On <a href=\"https:\/\/www.google.com\/search?q=restaurant+smethport+pa&amp;rlz=1C5CHFA_enUS504US504&amp;aq=f&amp;oq=restaurant+smethport+pa&amp;aqs=chrome.0.57j0l3j62.5590j0&amp;sourceid=chrome&amp;ie=UTF-8#rlz=1C5CHFA_enUS504US504&amp;sclient=psy-ab&amp;q=restaurants+salamanca+pa&amp;oq=restaurants+salamanca+pa&amp;gs_l=serp.3...3021.3021.1.3389.1.1.0.0.0.0.110.110.0j1.1.0...0.0...1c.1.12.psy-ab.40go-ub0ylY&amp;pbx=1&amp;bav=on.2,or.r_cp.r_qf.&amp;bvm=bv.46471029,d.dmg&amp;fp=94c13ed3fe1617a8&amp;biw=1280&amp;bih=929\">these<\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.google.com\/search?q=restaurant+smethport+pa&amp;rlz=1C5CHFA_enUS504US504&amp;aq=f&amp;oq=restaurant+smethport+pa&amp;aqs=chrome.0.57j0l3j62.5590j0&amp;sourceid=chrome&amp;ie=UTF-8#rlz=1C5CHFA_enUS504US504&amp;sclient=psy-ab&amp;q=restaurants+salamanca+pa&amp;oq=restaurants+salamanca+pa&amp;gs_l=serp.3...3021.3021.1.3389.1.1.0.0.0.0.110.110.0j1.1.0...0.0...1c.1.12.psy-ab.40go-ub0ylY&amp;pbx=1&amp;bav=on.2,or.r_cp.r_qf.&amp;bvm=bv.46471029,d.dmg&amp;fp=94c13ed3fe1617a8&amp;biw=1280&amp;bih=929&amp;tbm=plcs\">searches<\/a> for restaurants surfaces results with a range of lower review totals. Obviously we do not yet know how or when they will update the main search results display to stars and whether this will apply.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/blumenthals.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/05\/how-may-reviews-to-show-stars.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-medium wp-image-14915\" alt=\"how-may-reviews-to-show-stars\" src=\"http:\/\/blumenthals.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/05\/how-may-reviews-to-show-stars-520x539.jpg\" width=\"520\" height=\"539\" srcset=\"https:\/\/blumenthals.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/05\/how-may-reviews-to-show-stars-520x539.jpg 520w, https:\/\/blumenthals.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/05\/how-may-reviews-to-show-stars-192x200.jpg 192w, https:\/\/blumenthals.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/05\/how-may-reviews-to-show-stars.jpg 972w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 520px) 100vw, 520px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Peter Troast of EnergyCircle.com asked a great question in the comments to my post about the new visuals for the (now named) Maps List View -aka Places Search- result: Also seems like the # of reviews threshold is shifting for display. For zero reviews, &#8220;Be the first to review&#8221; appears right under company name. From &#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],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-14914","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-google-plus"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blumenthals.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14914","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=14914"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"https:\/\/blumenthals.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14914\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":14921,"href":"https:\/\/blumenthals.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14914\/revisions\/14921"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blumenthals.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=14914"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blumenthals.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=14914"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blumenthals.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=14914"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}