"Now Google Places no longer
shows those reviews on Places pages for a specific venue, nor does it count them in the total number of reviews which it shows for each place," TechCrunch writes. "Instead, it links to the reviews
from sites like Yelp, Zagat, and Citysearch separately -- and breaks out total review counts for each site."
Why the change? "Well, after using reviews from other sites as a placeholder until now, Google Places now seems to have enough of its own reviews to stand on its own two feet, especially after incorporating Hotpot."