This extension summarizes Google Maps reviews into a digestible score, allowing you to quickly assess the overall quality of a place without reading all the reviews. It prioritizes trusted reviews from users with more than 3 reviews to minimize the impact of fake accounts and emphasize genuine feedback.
- Filters out reviews from accounts with less than 3 reviews to focus on more reliable feedback.
- Identifies the time frame of reviews, categorizing them as within the past month, past year, or older.
- Calculates the score for each time frame: (number of 5-star reviews - number of 1-star reviews) / (number of trusted reviews)
- The score highlights the impact of 5-star and 1-star reviews, as they provide stronger signals about the place's quality.
- The user can select a specific time frame (past month, past year, or total) to view the corresponding score, offering a dynamic understanding of a place's quality over time.
- Click on the green "Code" button and select "Download ZIP" from the dropdown menu.
- Extract the ZIP file to a folder on your computer.
- Open Google Chrome.
- Click the three-dot menu icon in the top-right corner of the browser window and select "More tools" > "Extensions."
- Turn on "Developer mode" by toggling the switch in the top-right corner of the Extensions page.
- Click the "Load unpacked" button and navigate to the folder where you extracted the extension files in Step 1.
- Select the folder and click "Open."
The Summarize Google Maps Reviews extension should now be installed and ready to use. Visit Google Maps to see the summarized reviews.