A little over 2 weeks ago we blogged about the recent removal of third-party reviews from Google Places.
Shortly after we added a follow-up on how we thought the Google Maps results would adapt to still feature these additional reviews from third-party sources such as Yelp & Qype.
Today whilst speaking to a nice chap on the telephone we were telling him about this very subject and he said he had noticed another businesses listing showing the exact update which we predicted.
The new 3rd Party Reviews Feature on Google Maps
You can see the image about that ‘Reviews from around the web: qype.co.uk (4) – freeindex.co.uk (2)’ now shows at the bottom of the Google Places reviews. Third party reviews no longer feature mixed in with the maps reviews but are available.
Google hasn’t removed all 3rd party reviews
Just as we said in our earlier blog post – the third-party reviews although don’t show in with the ‘OFFICIAL’ Google Places ones they will still be available on the page. I still think that they will introduce a 3rd party review preview tab section very soon.
Watch this space!