[skilled]

Isn’t this done purely so that Google can avoid complaints from business owners who may get brigaded with false reviews? You can still write a bad review on Google reviews, and you can still find bad reviews elsewhere.

It’s a bad look for Google to show that widget and be like, “yeah these guys suck!”.

Not playing devils advocate either, seems like common sense to me.

[kurtisorwell]

They do it for positive sentiment as well.

The Reviews themselves are a whole other rigged mess of suck f*(%ery.