Yesterday we reported there was a problem with TripAdvisor reviews showing in Google Places, and said Google promised to fix the issue.

We were informed later that TripAdvisor is actually intentionally blocking Google from crawling and indexing their reviews. Tnooz.com reports that TripAdvisor is doing this intentionally.

Tnooz.com said:

Wow! Good for them!

Later on, Google confirmed the issue with Tnooz but didn’t say they were being blocked intentionally. All they told them was:

So which is it? Is it Google being blocked or a technical issue. Seems like Google is being blocked intentionally, which means technically Google has an issue accessing those reviews.

Forum discussion at Sphinn and Google Places Help.