Review name is showing up as "A Google User"

[Ryan Steinolfson]

Hello,

Is anyone experiencing this?
....To where all Google Reviews are now showing the name of the reviewer listed as "A Google User"
All of our reviews are listed this way.

Thanks,
Crystal

 

[Scott Rawlins]

Yep, I'm seeing the same thing for every review for every client. Temporary bug?

 

[Colan Nielsen]

Definitely sounds like a bug. I forwarded this thread over to Google.

 

[Phil Rozek]

@CrystalH, I'm not seeing "A Google User," so the bug theory seems accurate.

As you may know, many Google reviews that predated Google+ were attributed to "A Google User" a number of years ago. But the reviews you showed were recent, so those two phenomena probably don't overlap.

 

[Ryan Steinolfson]

Yep, I'm seeing the same thing for every review for every client. Temporary bug?

Yes, I hope it's a temporary bug

 

[Ryan Steinolfson]

Definitely sounds like a bug. I forwarded this thread over to Google.

Colan, Thank you!!!

 

[Ryan Steinolfson]

@CrystalH, I'm not seeing "A Google User," so the bug theory seems accurate.

As you may know, many Google reviews that predated Google+ were attributed to "A Google User" a number of years ago. But the reviews you showed were recent, so those two phenomena probably don't overlap.

Phil, thank you!

 

[Tim Colling]

I just left a review for a vendor I use and appreciate and my own review showed up as "a google user". Ugh.

 

[Joe Mink]

Has to be a bug. I left several personal reviews this weekend that initially showed up as 'A Google User' but now I see that they have resolved to my name as the user. Pretty annoying at first though.

 

[Tim Colling]

Has to be a bug. I left several personal reviews this weekend that initially showed up as 'A Google User' but now I see that they have resolved to my name as the user. Pretty annoying at first though.

Thanks, @Joe Mink. After reading your reply I went back and checked and indeed, now it displays my name. What an odd bug!

PS - That review I was leaving was for @Marie Haynes and her wonderful SEO newsletter. Well worth the modest price I pay for the subscription to the "paid subscribers" version.

 

[profiledefenders]

Most likely a bug from the Google+ closure and the way it tied in identifiers for posters.