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How to Find Google Reviews by Me (and About My Business)

12 August 2026 · JustReview

Google keeps two different lists of reviews, and they answer two different questions. One is every review you personally wrote as a customer, wherever you left it. The other is every review someone wrote about your business - but only the ones that landed on your Google Business Profile, because anything a customer left on a marketplace, a booking site or an industry directory stays invisible unless you go and look for it there separately. This guide gives the exact path for both, plus a number most business owners never check: how much of that second list has already rolled out of view before anyone thought to look.

Two different searches, one word

The confusion is understandable, because the word “reviews” covers both without Google ever distinguishing them in its own interface. Type “my reviews” into Google while signed in and you get a card of things you wrote. Open your Business Profile’s Reviews tab and you get a feed of what customers wrote about you. Neither view shows the other, and nothing on either screen tells you that.

Reviews you personally wrote

If you want the reviews you have left as a customer - a restaurant last month, a hotel two years ago, a plumber you have half forgotten - the fastest route is Google Maps itself. Open Maps, either the app or maps.google.com, and tap your profile photo. The menu has an entry called Your contributions on the web, or Contributions in the app; inside it, the Reviews tab lists every review you have ever published, newest first, with the star rating, any photos you attached, and buttons to edit or delete each one.

There is a shortcut that skips the menu entirely: go straight to maps.google.com/contrib while signed into the account that wrote the reviews, and it opens the same list directly. A second shortcut works from plain Google Search: type “my reviews” while signed in, and Google surfaces a card with the same content without opening Maps at all.

What none of these give you is an export button or a keyword search across your own history. If you are trying to find one specific review from three years ago and cannot remember the business name, you are scrolling, not searching.

Reviews written about your business

Finding what customers wrote about you is a different login and a different screen. If you manage the Google Business Profile for your company, sign in at business.google.com or open the listing directly in Maps, then open the Reviews tab. You can sort what you see by newest or by rating, and you can reply publicly under any of them - a reply is visible to anyone who opens the listing afterwards, so it is worth treating as a customer-facing message rather than a private note.

That tab only shows reviews posted on your Google listing. It has no idea that the same customer might have also left five stars on your Facebook page, on Booksy if you run a salon, on Etsy or Amazon if you sell on a marketplace, or on Capterra if you sell software. Each of those lives behind its own separate login with its own separate reviews screen, and Google’s interface will never show you any of them.

For a single-location business with no other listings, that limitation barely matters. For anyone selling in more than one place, it means the picture inside Google’s own tools is permanently partial - not wrong, just missing whatever happened somewhere else.

The reviews that already rolled out of view

There is a second, quieter limitation, and it applies even inside a single platform: some review APIs do not hand over full history, only a recent window of it.

Trusted Shops is the clearest example we have measured. Its own connector endpoint - the one that reads a shop’s reviews for import - returns only the last 365 days on any single call. Query it today and reviews from fourteen months ago are simply absent from the response, not hidden behind a filter, just not sent. If a tool only ever queries that endpoint once, whatever a shop had already collected before that day is gone from that tool for good.

We queried our own production database on 12 August 2026 for every JustReview account with a Trusted Shops connector: 12 accounts, 2,419 reviews between them, and the oldest one dated 29 September 2020 - nowhere near the 365-day window the same API would return if called today. The reason is not a special trick against Trusted Shops. It is that the connector has polled every night since the day it was first connected, and each night’s 365-day window overlaps almost completely with the one before it, so nothing in between ever falls through a gap. A snapshot taken once gives you a year. A history built one night at a time gives you as many years as the connector has been running.

The same accumulation shows up on our own demo account, the one behind the widget at the bottom of this article: it holds reviews dating back to 11 October 2020 from Capterra, alongside G2 reviews from November 2020, Facebook reviews from 2022, and reviews collected directly through our own review page since 2023 - four sources, four different start dates, none of them capped at a year.

The honest caveat: this only holds while the connector keeps running. One JustReview account had its Trusted Shops connector go silent for close to two years; by the time the gap was noticed and fixed, those reviews had already scrolled past the API’s 365-day window and could not be recovered by us either. A rolling window forgives nothing once you have missed it.

Seeing every source on one page

If the goal is one place that shows everything - what you wrote, what was written about you, on Google and everywhere else - that is a different tool than either of Google’s own screens, because Google was never going to build a page that aggregates its competitors.

A Google reviews widget that also reads Facebook, marketplaces and booking sites solves the “everywhere else” half of the problem: connect each source once, and the panel behind it keeps every review it has ever pulled in a single sortable list, for as long as the connection stays alive. That is the same accumulation described above, just extended across more than one platform at a time.

It does not solve the “reviews I personally wrote” half - that one only exists inside Google’s own account settings, because nobody else is allowed to read it. But the business side, the reviews-about-you side, is exactly the half that scatters across platforms, and it is the one worth pulling into a single view before deciding there is nothing left to find. What connecting more than one source at a time takes to set up is covered in how to get reviews onto your website, and what counts as fair reuse of someone else’s review is explained in our documentation on scraping and reuse.

The short version

Reviews you wrote live in your Google account, under Maps contributions, and nothing else pulls them. Reviews about your business live wherever a customer decided to leave one - Google is only the loudest of those places, not the only one - and Google’s own tools show you just the Google slice. Some of that history disappears faster than you would expect, not because anyone deleted it, but because the platform’s own API only ever hands over a year at a time; whether you keep more than that depends on whether something has been collecting it the whole way through.

If you want to see what a full history looks like once every source feeds one page, the Google reviews widget is free for up to 100 reviews with no card required, and creating an account takes a couple of minutes. What it costs beyond the free plan is on the pricing page.