Google is Testing a New Google Map Review Summary and 3rd Party Review Summary Card on Mobile

In the mobile Google Maps app, we are seeing a new Google Review Summary technique that shows review snippets summaries based on the most common Places Topics. The new display in the Google Maps mobile app for both Android and iPhone now shows Review Summaries based on the Place Topics. Topics with the highest frequency seem to drive the review snippet choice and link out to the corpus of reviews containing the phrase. The change is not yet visible on the desktop version of Google Maps.

Another interesting change is the new 3rd party review summary cards that are now being shown on the mobile browser brand search results. Google is including these summary cards for 3rd party sites above the Google Review Summaries.