{
  "title": "Google review removal denominator audit: 2024–2025",
  "version": "1.0",
  "published": "2026-10-24",
  "article_url": "https://reviewremoval.ca/blog/google-review-removal-denominator-audit.html",
  "license": "https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/",
  "rights_note": "ReviewRemoval original compilation, calculations and figures: CC BY 4.0. Google retains rights in source material.",
  "geographic_scope": "Global source disclosures; no separate Canadian, provincial or city sample.",
  "reporting_period": "2024-01-01/2025-12-31",
  "source_count": 34,
  "comparison_count": 13,
  "source_input": "google-removal-source-values-2026.json",
  "source_provenance": [
    {
      "year": 2024,
      "sources": {
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          "url": "https://transparencyreport.google.com/maps-content/enforcement?hl=en&lu=page&page=ef2:2024",
          "body_text_sha256": "a0ab69567ce572ea007356f918a20c0b1e2ab2ba683227c702cd2f56f40d8aa3"
        },
        "overview": {
          "url": "https://transparencyreport.google.com/maps-content/overview?hl=en&lu=page&page=of1:2024",
          "body_text_sha256": "584b45930c9edff95dda1f32c80175678ada542bef1741d5897858cd759d0608"
        }
      }
    },
    {
      "year": 2025,
      "sources": {
        "enforcement": {
          "url": "https://transparencyreport.google.com/maps-content/enforcement?hl=en",
          "body_text_sha256": "d71f03027a12ec5c09c9481feeac1b02104f6ebb4388830a917e09456458d0ea"
        },
        "overview": {
          "url": "https://transparencyreport.google.com/maps-content/overview?hl=en",
          "body_text_sha256": "a7ae0eee98a82c08af2ef9aba605d99b83de07b4b15ee4aac62abdf878cad8fc"
        }
      }
    }
  ],
  "notes": [
    "Rows preserve source, version, unit, denominator and inequality. Do not add measurements with different units or sum current and superseded values.",
    "Source statuses are assessed as of January 31 of the following year, per Google’s FAQ; current pages can incorporate later reporting corrections.",
    "Current snapshot magnitudes and announcement thresholds are different disclosures. A >240M threshold is not an exact 240M count.",
    "Nominal percentage-point changes use displayed rates. The source does not supply unrounded values, standard errors or its rounding algorithm.",
    "The harm field remains a strict upper bound. Equal displayed bounds do not demonstrate unchanged actual harm volume or share.",
    "No per-reason review count, merchant-report denominator, Canadian success rate or fraud prevalence is inferred.",
    "Per-10,000 conversions illustrate scale. They do not describe a sample of 10,000 actual reviews or submitted reports."
  ],
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      "checked": "2026-10-24",
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      "operator": "displayed_rounded",
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      "snapshot_status_date": "2025-01-31",
      "population_time_basis": "selected_year_contribution_status_at_following_january_31",
      "source_url": "https://transparencyreport.google.com/maps-content/overview?hl=en&lu=page&page=of1:2024",
      "notes": "Displayed magnitude; source does not publish an exact unrounded count or rounding algorithm. This is not a case-success probability."
    },
    {
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      "geography": "Global",
      "checked": "2026-10-24",
      "year": 2024,
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      "unit": "reviews",
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      "operator": "displayed_rounded",
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      "snapshot_status_date": "2025-01-31",
      "population_time_basis": "selected_year_contribution_status_at_following_january_31",
      "source_url": "https://transparencyreport.google.com/maps-content/enforcement?hl=en&lu=page&page=ef2:2024",
      "notes": "Displayed magnitude; source does not publish an exact unrounded count or rounding algorithm. This is not a case-success probability."
    },
    {
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      "geography": "Global",
      "checked": "2026-10-24",
      "year": 2024,
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      "unit": "photos_and_videos",
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      "snapshot_status_date": "2025-01-31",
      "population_time_basis": "selected_year_contribution_status_at_following_january_31",
      "source_url": "https://transparencyreport.google.com/maps-content/overview?hl=en&lu=page&page=of1:2024",
      "notes": "Displayed magnitude; source does not publish an exact unrounded count or rounding algorithm. This is not a case-success probability."
    },
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      "checked": "2026-10-24",
      "year": 2024,
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      "operator": "displayed_rounded",
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      "snapshot_status_date": "2025-01-31",
      "population_time_basis": "selected_year_contribution_status_at_following_january_31",
      "source_url": "https://transparencyreport.google.com/maps-content/enforcement?hl=en&lu=page&page=ef2:2024",
      "notes": "Displayed magnitude; source does not publish an exact unrounded count or rounding algorithm. This is not a case-success probability."
    },
    {
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      "checked": "2026-10-24",
      "year": 2024,
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      "unit": "edits",
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      "value": 83000000,
      "operator": "displayed_rounded",
      "denominator": null,
      "snapshot_status_date": "2025-01-31",
      "population_time_basis": "selected_year_contribution_status_at_following_january_31",
      "source_url": "https://transparencyreport.google.com/maps-content/overview?hl=en&lu=page&page=of1:2024",
      "notes": "Displayed magnitude; source does not publish an exact unrounded count or rounding algorithm. This is not a case-success probability."
    },
    {
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      "geography": "Global",
      "checked": "2026-10-24",
      "year": 2024,
      "metric": "edits_removed",
      "label": "Place edits blocked or removed",
      "source_kind": "current_snapshot",
      "unit": "edits",
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      "operator": "displayed_rounded",
      "denominator": null,
      "snapshot_status_date": "2025-01-31",
      "population_time_basis": "selected_year_contribution_status_at_following_january_31",
      "source_url": "https://transparencyreport.google.com/maps-content/enforcement?hl=en&lu=page&page=ef2:2024",
      "notes": "Displayed magnitude; source does not publish an exact unrounded count or rounding algorithm. This is not a case-success probability."
    },
    {
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      "geography": "Global",
      "checked": "2026-10-24",
      "year": 2024,
      "metric": "accounts_restricted",
      "label": "Contributor accounts restricted",
      "source_kind": "current_snapshot",
      "unit": "accounts",
      "display": "949K",
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      "operator": "displayed_rounded",
      "denominator": null,
      "snapshot_status_date": null,
      "population_time_basis": "enforcement_actions_during_selected_year",
      "source_url": "https://transparencyreport.google.com/maps-content/enforcement?hl=en&lu=page&page=ef2:2024",
      "notes": "Displayed magnitude; source does not publish an exact unrounded count or rounding algorithm. This is not a case-success probability."
    },
    {
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      "geography": "Global",
      "checked": "2026-10-24",
      "year": 2024,
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      "label": "Fake or fraudulent Business Profiles blocked or removed",
      "source_kind": "current_snapshot",
      "unit": "profiles",
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      "snapshot_status_date": null,
      "population_time_basis": "enforcement_actions_during_selected_year",
      "source_url": "https://transparencyreport.google.com/maps-content/enforcement?hl=en&lu=page&page=ef2:2024",
      "notes": "Displayed magnitude; source does not publish an exact unrounded count or rounding algorithm. This is not a case-success probability."
    },
    {
      "record_id": "G09",
      "geography": "Global",
      "checked": "2026-10-24",
      "year": 2024,
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      "label": "Fake or misleading",
      "source_kind": "current_snapshot",
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      "operator": "displayed_rounded",
      "denominator": "all_reviews_contributed",
      "snapshot_status_date": "2025-01-31",
      "source_url": "https://transparencyreport.google.com/maps-content/enforcement?hl=en&lu=page&page=ef2:2024",
      "notes": "Displayed percentage of all contributed reviews, not of removed reviews or business reports."
    },
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      "geography": "Global",
      "checked": "2026-10-24",
      "year": 2024,
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      "label": "Vandalism or off-topic",
      "source_kind": "current_snapshot",
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      "value": 3.6,
      "operator": "displayed_rounded",
      "denominator": "all_reviews_contributed",
      "snapshot_status_date": "2025-01-31",
      "source_url": "https://transparencyreport.google.com/maps-content/enforcement?hl=en&lu=page&page=ef2:2024",
      "notes": "Displayed percentage of all contributed reviews, not of removed reviews or business reports."
    },
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      "geography": "Global",
      "checked": "2026-10-24",
      "year": 2024,
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      "label": "Account restrictions",
      "source_kind": "current_snapshot",
      "unit": "percent",
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      "value": 0.8,
      "operator": "displayed_rounded",
      "denominator": "all_reviews_contributed",
      "snapshot_status_date": "2025-01-31",
      "source_url": "https://transparencyreport.google.com/maps-content/enforcement?hl=en&lu=page&page=ef2:2024",
      "notes": "Displayed percentage of all contributed reviews, not of removed reviews or business reports."
    },
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      "record_id": "G12",
      "geography": "Global",
      "checked": "2026-10-24",
      "year": 2024,
      "metric": "reason_harm",
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      "source_kind": "current_snapshot",
      "unit": "percent",
      "display": "<0.1%",
      "value": 0.1,
      "operator": "lt",
      "denominator": "all_reviews_contributed",
      "snapshot_status_date": "2025-01-31",
      "source_url": "https://transparencyreport.google.com/maps-content/enforcement?hl=en&lu=page&page=ef2:2024",
      "notes": "Strict upper bound, not an observed point or zero."
    },
    {
      "record_id": "G13",
      "geography": "Global",
      "checked": "2026-10-24",
      "year": 2024,
      "metric": "reason_other",
      "label": "Other",
      "source_kind": "current_snapshot",
      "unit": "percent",
      "display": "0.1%",
      "value": 0.1,
      "operator": "displayed_rounded",
      "denominator": "all_reviews_contributed",
      "snapshot_status_date": "2025-01-31",
      "source_url": "https://transparencyreport.google.com/maps-content/enforcement?hl=en&lu=page&page=ef2:2024",
      "notes": "Displayed percentage of all contributed reviews, not of removed reviews or business reports."
    },
    {
      "record_id": "G14",
      "geography": "Global",
      "checked": "2026-10-24",
      "year": 2025,
      "metric": "reviews_published",
      "label": "Reviews published",
      "source_kind": "current_snapshot",
      "unit": "reviews",
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      "value": 1140000000,
      "operator": "displayed_rounded",
      "denominator": null,
      "snapshot_status_date": "2026-01-31",
      "population_time_basis": "selected_year_contribution_status_at_following_january_31",
      "source_url": "https://transparencyreport.google.com/maps-content/overview?hl=en",
      "notes": "Displayed magnitude; source does not publish an exact unrounded count or rounding algorithm. This is not a case-success probability."
    },
    {
      "record_id": "G15",
      "geography": "Global",
      "checked": "2026-10-24",
      "year": 2025,
      "metric": "reviews_removed",
      "label": "Reviews blocked or removed",
      "source_kind": "current_snapshot",
      "unit": "reviews",
      "display": "292M",
      "value": 292000000,
      "operator": "displayed_rounded",
      "denominator": null,
      "snapshot_status_date": "2026-01-31",
      "population_time_basis": "selected_year_contribution_status_at_following_january_31",
      "source_url": "https://transparencyreport.google.com/maps-content/enforcement?hl=en",
      "notes": "Displayed magnitude; source does not publish an exact unrounded count or rounding algorithm. This is not a case-success probability."
    },
    {
      "record_id": "G16",
      "geography": "Global",
      "checked": "2026-10-24",
      "year": 2025,
      "metric": "media_published",
      "label": "Photos and videos published",
      "source_kind": "current_snapshot",
      "unit": "photos_and_videos",
      "display": "827M",
      "value": 827000000,
      "operator": "displayed_rounded",
      "denominator": null,
      "snapshot_status_date": "2026-01-31",
      "population_time_basis": "selected_year_contribution_status_at_following_january_31",
      "source_url": "https://transparencyreport.google.com/maps-content/overview?hl=en",
      "notes": "Displayed magnitude; source does not publish an exact unrounded count or rounding algorithm. This is not a case-success probability."
    },
    {
      "record_id": "G17",
      "geography": "Global",
      "checked": "2026-10-24",
      "year": 2025,
      "metric": "media_removed",
      "label": "Photos and videos blocked or removed",
      "source_kind": "current_snapshot",
      "unit": "photos_and_videos",
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      "value": 159000000,
      "operator": "displayed_rounded",
      "denominator": null,
      "snapshot_status_date": "2026-01-31",
      "population_time_basis": "selected_year_contribution_status_at_following_january_31",
      "source_url": "https://transparencyreport.google.com/maps-content/enforcement?hl=en",
      "notes": "Displayed magnitude; source does not publish an exact unrounded count or rounding algorithm. This is not a case-success probability."
    },
    {
      "record_id": "G18",
      "geography": "Global",
      "checked": "2026-10-24",
      "year": 2025,
      "metric": "edits_published",
      "label": "Place edits published",
      "source_kind": "current_snapshot",
      "unit": "edits",
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      "value": 80000000,
      "operator": "displayed_rounded",
      "denominator": null,
      "snapshot_status_date": "2026-01-31",
      "population_time_basis": "selected_year_contribution_status_at_following_january_31",
      "source_url": "https://transparencyreport.google.com/maps-content/overview?hl=en",
      "notes": "Displayed magnitude; source does not publish an exact unrounded count or rounding algorithm. This is not a case-success probability."
    },
    {
      "record_id": "G19",
      "geography": "Global",
      "checked": "2026-10-24",
      "year": 2025,
      "metric": "edits_removed",
      "label": "Place edits blocked or removed",
      "source_kind": "current_snapshot",
      "unit": "edits",
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      "value": 79000000,
      "operator": "displayed_rounded",
      "denominator": null,
      "snapshot_status_date": "2026-01-31",
      "population_time_basis": "selected_year_contribution_status_at_following_january_31",
      "source_url": "https://transparencyreport.google.com/maps-content/enforcement?hl=en",
      "notes": "Displayed magnitude; source does not publish an exact unrounded count or rounding algorithm. This is not a case-success probability."
    },
    {
      "record_id": "G20",
      "geography": "Global",
      "checked": "2026-10-24",
      "year": 2025,
      "metric": "accounts_restricted",
      "label": "Contributor accounts restricted",
      "source_kind": "current_snapshot",
      "unit": "accounts",
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      "value": 782000,
      "operator": "displayed_rounded",
      "denominator": null,
      "snapshot_status_date": null,
      "population_time_basis": "enforcement_actions_during_selected_year",
      "source_url": "https://transparencyreport.google.com/maps-content/enforcement?hl=en",
      "notes": "Displayed magnitude; source does not publish an exact unrounded count or rounding algorithm. This is not a case-success probability."
    },
    {
      "record_id": "G21",
      "geography": "Global",
      "checked": "2026-10-24",
      "year": 2025,
      "metric": "profiles_removed",
      "label": "Fake or fraudulent Business Profiles blocked or removed",
      "source_kind": "current_snapshot",
      "unit": "profiles",
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      "value": 13000000,
      "operator": "displayed_rounded",
      "denominator": null,
      "snapshot_status_date": null,
      "population_time_basis": "enforcement_actions_during_selected_year",
      "source_url": "https://transparencyreport.google.com/maps-content/enforcement?hl=en",
      "notes": "Displayed magnitude; source does not publish an exact unrounded count or rounding algorithm. This is not a case-success probability."
    },
    {
      "record_id": "G22",
      "geography": "Global",
      "checked": "2026-10-24",
      "year": 2025,
      "metric": "reason_fake_or_misleading",
      "label": "Fake or misleading",
      "source_kind": "current_snapshot",
      "unit": "percent",
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      "value": 15.4,
      "operator": "displayed_rounded",
      "denominator": "all_reviews_contributed",
      "snapshot_status_date": "2026-01-31",
      "source_url": "https://transparencyreport.google.com/maps-content/enforcement?hl=en",
      "notes": "Displayed percentage of all contributed reviews, not of removed reviews or business reports."
    },
    {
      "record_id": "G23",
      "geography": "Global",
      "checked": "2026-10-24",
      "year": 2025,
      "metric": "reason_vandalism_or_off_topic",
      "label": "Vandalism or off-topic",
      "source_kind": "current_snapshot",
      "unit": "percent",
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      "value": 3.9,
      "operator": "displayed_rounded",
      "denominator": "all_reviews_contributed",
      "snapshot_status_date": "2026-01-31",
      "source_url": "https://transparencyreport.google.com/maps-content/enforcement?hl=en",
      "notes": "Displayed percentage of all contributed reviews, not of removed reviews or business reports."
    },
    {
      "record_id": "G24",
      "geography": "Global",
      "checked": "2026-10-24",
      "year": 2025,
      "metric": "reason_account_restriction_reviews",
      "label": "Account restrictions",
      "source_kind": "current_snapshot",
      "unit": "percent",
      "display": "0.7%",
      "value": 0.7,
      "operator": "displayed_rounded",
      "denominator": "all_reviews_contributed",
      "snapshot_status_date": "2026-01-31",
      "source_url": "https://transparencyreport.google.com/maps-content/enforcement?hl=en",
      "notes": "Displayed percentage of all contributed reviews, not of removed reviews or business reports."
    },
    {
      "record_id": "G25",
      "geography": "Global",
      "checked": "2026-10-24",
      "year": 2025,
      "metric": "reason_harm",
      "label": "Harm",
      "source_kind": "current_snapshot",
      "unit": "percent",
      "display": "<0.1%",
      "value": 0.1,
      "operator": "lt",
      "denominator": "all_reviews_contributed",
      "snapshot_status_date": "2026-01-31",
      "source_url": "https://transparencyreport.google.com/maps-content/enforcement?hl=en",
      "notes": "Strict upper bound, not an observed point or zero."
    },
    {
      "record_id": "G26",
      "geography": "Global",
      "checked": "2026-10-24",
      "year": 2025,
      "metric": "reason_other",
      "label": "Other",
      "source_kind": "current_snapshot",
      "unit": "percent",
      "display": "0.2%",
      "value": 0.2,
      "operator": "displayed_rounded",
      "denominator": "all_reviews_contributed",
      "snapshot_status_date": "2026-01-31",
      "source_url": "https://transparencyreport.google.com/maps-content/enforcement?hl=en",
      "notes": "Displayed percentage of all contributed reviews, not of removed reviews or business reports."
    },
    {
      "record_id": "G27",
      "geography": "Global",
      "checked": "2026-10-24",
      "year": 2024,
      "metric": "edits_published",
      "label": "Place edits published",
      "source_kind": "superseded_value",
      "unit": "edits",
      "display": "94M",
      "value": 94000000,
      "operator": "displayed_rounded",
      "denominator": null,
      "snapshot_status_date": "2025-01-31",
      "source_url": "https://support.google.com/transparencyreport/answer/16939440?hl=en",
      "notes": "Google identifies this earlier value as superseded. Do not mix versions in a change calculation."
    },
    {
      "record_id": "G28",
      "geography": "Global",
      "checked": "2026-10-24",
      "year": 2024,
      "metric": "edits_published",
      "label": "Place edits published",
      "source_kind": "correction_notice_value",
      "unit": "edits",
      "display": "83M",
      "value": 83000000,
      "operator": "displayed_rounded",
      "denominator": null,
      "snapshot_status_date": "2025-01-31",
      "source_url": "https://support.google.com/transparencyreport/answer/16939440?hl=en",
      "notes": "Google identifies this replacement in its March 2026 correction notice. Do not mix versions in a change calculation."
    },
    {
      "record_id": "G29",
      "geography": "Global",
      "checked": "2026-10-24",
      "year": 2024,
      "metric": "edits_removed",
      "label": "Place edits blocked or removed",
      "source_kind": "superseded_value",
      "unit": "edits",
      "display": "70M",
      "value": 70000000,
      "operator": "displayed_rounded",
      "denominator": null,
      "snapshot_status_date": "2025-01-31",
      "source_url": "https://support.google.com/transparencyreport/answer/16939440?hl=en",
      "notes": "Google identifies this earlier value as superseded. Do not mix versions in a change calculation."
    },
    {
      "record_id": "G30",
      "geography": "Global",
      "checked": "2026-10-24",
      "year": 2024,
      "metric": "edits_removed",
      "label": "Place edits blocked or removed",
      "source_kind": "correction_notice_value",
      "unit": "edits",
      "display": "82M",
      "value": 82000000,
      "operator": "displayed_rounded",
      "denominator": null,
      "snapshot_status_date": "2025-01-31",
      "source_url": "https://support.google.com/transparencyreport/answer/16939440?hl=en",
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      "notes": "Google identifies this replacement in its March 2026 correction notice. Do not mix versions in a change calculation."
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