Worst-case rating

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• Jun 9, 2026
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  Some businesses in Germany take advantage of local defamation laws to remove large numbers of negative reviews from their Google Maps profiles. Google now shows a notice indicating how many reviews were removed following defamation complaints, such as "201 to 250 reviews removed due to defamation complaints" but these removed reviews are not reflected in the displayed star rating. As a result, some businesses may appear to have a higher rating than they would otherwise deserve.
  
  How it works:
  In Google Maps, on the “Reviews” tab, "Worst-case rating" shows the lowest possible rating a venue could have if all reviews deleted by the venue were counted as 1-star reviews.
  
  Example:
  Venue: Best Grill in your city
  current rating = 5
  current number of reviews = 500
  Google Maps shows: "201 to 250 reviews removed due to defamation complaints". Then we calculate the approximate number of removed reviews = ((250 − 201) / 2) + 201 = 225.5
  
  Worst case rating = (500 × 5 + 225.5) / (500 + 225.5 × 1) = 3.75 🤔
  
  The detailed explanation and formula you can see on site:
  https://real-map-review.com/
  
  The developer: 
  t.me/tech_m0re
  
  Privacy:
  No personal data is collected or transmitted. All analysis runs locally in your browser against publicly accessible information.

  Some businesses in Germany take advantage of local defamation laws to remove large numbers of negative reviews from their Google Maps profiles. Google now shows a notice indicating how many reviews were removed following defamation complaints, such as "201 to 250 reviews removed due to defamation complaints" but these removed reviews are not reflected in the displayed star rating. As a result, some businesses may appear to have a higher rating than they would otherwise deserve.
  
  How it works:
  On Google Maps, "Worst-case rating" shows the lowest possible rating a venue could have if all reviews deleted by the venue were counted as N-star reviews. The N is configurable! The default value is 1.
  
  Example:
  Venue: "Best Grill in your city"
  current rating = 5
  current number of reviews = 500
  Google Maps shows: "201 to 250 reviews removed due to defamation complaints". Then we calculate the approximate number of removed reviews = (250 + 201) / 2 = 225.5
  N = 1
  
  Worst case rating = (500 × 5 + 225.5 × 1) / (500 + 225.5) = 3.75 🤔
  
  The detailed explanation and formula you can see on site:
  https://real-map-review.com/
  
  The developer: 
  t.me/tech_m0re
  
  Privacy:
  No personal data is collected or transmitted. All analysis runs locally in your browser against publicly accessible information.

• Jun 9, 2026
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  lifestyle/shopping

• Jun 9, 2026
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