@darrenshawseo

Google has announced on a blog post yesterday that coming soon uh to Google reviews the ability to leave a review anonymously. So they say in the blog post that this will be rolling out over the course globally over the course of this month. So in the Google Maps app or on desktop you'll be able to click edit profile and then there's a little thing that says use custom name and profile pic for posting and you can see it in the animated GIF that's in the blog post like how it's gonna work.

I tried I updated my Google Maps app.

I went in there. I don't have it yet. It's still rolling out globally but this is pretty significant and I think it it raises concerns about review fraud on you know being able to hide your identity it also I I was thinking about this there is this this sort of response that you see to negative reviews on the on Google you'll see people say uh, we checked our records and we have no record of you being a customer of our business.

So we know that you're a liar.

You'll see people say that kind of stuff in their review response but you won't be able to do that anymore because instead of it being a customer's name it's like Fluffy Rabbit 3 2 9. Yeah. And one of the things that you won't be able to do is if you had clicked through to The person that had left it and saw that they left, you know, 25 one star reviews for vacuum, you know, vacuum cleaner repair.

Yeah, in country in countries all over Europe.

Yeah, you, you can't see that, can you? So you don't get the chance to like highlight, uh, that it looks spamy. I think you can still click on the profile.

It would just be like all those reviews were left by Fluffy Rabbit.

Fluffy Bunny. Oh, okay. Oh, well, we'll see, won't we?

Yeah, that's a good way.

I think. Yeah, that's how I make mine when I when I update my, my nickname on my Google business, it's definitely gonna be Fluffy Bunny. So if you see that in your reviews, it is a k.

A it's me.

It's me leaving fake reviews all over the internet.