In September 2026 we published figures from our free removal scan: the share of negative Google reviews that our software flagged as breaking a Google content policy, and the share of scanned businesses with at least one flagged review.
Those figures came from an automated screen of the businesses that chose to run a scan. The flags were not checked by people or against Google's own decisions, so they measured what our software flagged, not what breaks Google's rules. We have withdrawn them.
A new study of negative Google reviews, written to a pre-registered method, will replace them. This page will link to it when it is published.