Google Third-Party Review Boxes Algorithmically Selected

In some European regions, Google, likely because of the DMA laws, has to show review aggregated ratings from third-party sites. How does Google know which sites to take those reviews from? You would think Google has a trusted list of sites it would pick from but John Mueller of Google said, “These things tend to be algorithmic.”

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