Reviews for Google Local

January 16, 2007 4:19 PM

Did Google Maps yank their "leave a review" feature for businesses? All I see for my area are prepackaged reviews from Citysearch which aren't even specific to my city and aren't very useful. I see no user input links except for "Business Owners: Add/Edit Your Business". I distinctly remember leaving reviews there a couple of years ago.
posted by chef_boyardee to Computers & Internet (3 answers total)

I never remember Google Maps having the reviews feature, but I'd be interested to read about it if there ever was. All I can ever remember seeing were the reviews from sites like city search, or other similar sites.
posted by chrisamiller at 4:25 PM on January 16, 2007

Are you sure that it wasn't a mashup site, using the google maps API?
posted by chrisamiller at 4:31 PM on January 16, 2007

Well, there are some there. The reviews seem to be culled from other sites such as yelp.com and Citysearch (Perhaps that's what you mean by "prepackaged"). You can see an example if you search for "mandalay 94118," and check out the first result.
posted by alexei at 12:56 AM on January 17, 2007