Leaving anonymous reviews on Google?

JustAnotherSaver

This is something i've thought of doing for a bit. Too often people only leave reviews when they're moaning about something. I'd like to leave reviews on companies i've used, especially smaller local companies, regardless of the experience, good, bad, halfway. I know when we've been looking for a company for something & we've just wondered what they're like but there's no available feedback about them.


Yes i'm well aware feedback and reviews can be doctored. That's out of my control.


Anyway, i dealt with a local company for something and they were superb. I went to leave them feedback but it shows up my first and last name on the review. It does that with most people i see whereas some are, hmm let's take David Beckham for example - it'd show D.Beckham or David.B.


Just wondering how to leave reviews without showing both my first and last name.

Nasqueron

You can create a free gmail account for stuff like this if you don't want your name pulling through. I believe (could be wrong), google will pull your name through from the gmail account name so you'd have to change that in order to be anonymous

societys_child

google and anonymous eh? Not if google can help it . .

JustAnotherSaver

societys_child wrote: »

google and anonymous eh? Not if google can help it . .

Well yeah, not for folk like certain people on here who've nothing better to do & love to go digging.

But for the average person who takes things at face value...

societys_child

JustAnotherSaver wrote: »

Well yeah, not for folk like certain people on here who've nothing better to do & love to go digging.

But for the average person who takes things at face value...

:huh: Totally lost now.

that

I use my phone to leave a score and comment. My phone has its very own email account and not tied to any form of payment system, or personal email.

A few ways to do this. One is by using google maps, and another way is by becoming a Local guide.

Then there is Facebook, which I am not a member of.

JustAnotherSaver

societys_child wrote: »

:huh: Totally lost now.

You shouldn't be.


You said not if google can help it & you're right. If you (or anyone) does enough digging on Google then you should be able to find info.
Earlier this year i deleted a couple comments here after a thread got a bit daft. What did some members do? Jumped on Google and there's a way you can find the old deleted posts. They quoted them back in to the thread.


I saw in the LED lighting thread in the motoring section this week someone posted about their car. A member here who didn't like LED number plates went through the effort of taking the guys reg plate, searching up info on the car such as MOT history and then using this to try and 'get at' the other member. Really going a bit too far.


So i was agreeing with you. If you dig hard enough you should find something.

JustAnotherSaver

that wrote: »

Local guide.

I've seen that mentioned on some reviews. What is that?

that

JustAnotherSaver wrote: »

I've seen that mentioned on some reviews. What is that?

Ideally google want to map everywhere you phone goes. If you hover in one location too long they think you are visiting and want you o fill out a survey of the place, take photos. Find it quite intrusive, and once you register it is hard to get out of.

if you get out of it, then amend one of your comments, i seems to automatically, partially re-enrol you.

You end up working for free at google and get nothing for it, except 'fun'?

JustAnotherSaver

that wrote: »

Ideally google want to map everywhere you phone goes. If you hover in one location too long they think you are visiting and want you o fill out a survey of the place, take photos. Find it quite intrusive, and once you register it is hard to get out of.

if you get out of it, then amend one of your comments, i seems to automatically, partially re-enrol you.

You end up working for free at google and get nothing for it, except 'fun'?

Thanks. I'll bear that in mind. Is it worse with an Android phone?
I'm with Apple for the next 2 years but i'm fairly sure my next one will be Android.

Farway

that wrote: »

Ideally google want to map everywhere you phone goes. If you hover in one location too long they think you are visiting and want you o fill out a survey of the place, take photos. Find it quite intrusive, and once you register it is hard to get out of.

if you get out of it, then amend one of your comments, i seems to automatically, partially re-enrol you.

You end up working for free at google and get nothing for it, except 'fun'?

I'm a local guide, but I've never found it pestering me. I submit if I feel a local company, not national, warrants it.
FWIW I also submit to Trip Advisor, for the same reason, and hopefully supply a reasoned review among some of rants

I started for the very same reason the OP wanted to,i dealt with a local company for something and they were superb"

I've an Android phone, but use desktop for submissions