How Cebugle keeps listings honest

A directory is only useful if you can believe it. Every listing on Cebugle has a card that says what is known about it and what is not. This page explains what each line on that card means.

Verified businesses

The Verified badge means a person at Cebugle checked the business’s registration documents: a DTI, SEC or BIR certificate, a mayor’s permit, or a barangay clearance. The badge shows the month it was checked. It can expire, and it comes off by itself if the business changes its name, address, phone numbers or email address, until somebody checks again. A badge is always decided by a person at Cebugle, never automatically.

Claimed listings

Many listings were filed by Cebugle from public information so that you can find a place before its owner joins. Those listings say not claimed by the business yet. A business claims its listing by proving it controls the website or email address the listing shows, or by satisfying a person at Cebugle that it runs the place. Only then does the card say the business runs it, and since when.

What visitors say

Visitors can say they have been to a place, confirm its opening hours, and report what it is like right now, such as a long line or no power. The card counts these. Each person counts once per place, and the owner of a listing cannot add to its own counts.

Reviews

Each member can write one review of a place. When the reviewer has also said they have been there, the review is marked Has been here. That is what the reviewer told us, not something Cebugle can prove, and it is labelled that way. A business can reply to a review, but it cannot edit or remove one.

What is screened

• Posts in the home feed are checked for explicit content and spam before they are shown to everybody.
• Marketplace listings are checked for scams and prohibited items when they are posted and every time they are edited.
• Anything can be reported, including posts, reviews, comments, listings and profiles, even without an account. Each person can report something once, and every report reaches a person at Cebugle.

Counting people, not bots

The visitor numbers on a listing count only views that a real browser confirmed, so automated traffic does not inflate them. Taps on a phone number, the directions or a website are counted once per person per day. A business sees how many customers it reached, not how many times one person pressed a button.

Points and the leaderboard

Points on the leaderboard come from contributions other people can use: reviews, answers, confirmed hours and status reports. Each kind of contribution stops earning points after a fixed number, so repeating one thing many times does not put anybody at the top.

Seen something on Cebugle that is not true? Report it from the menu on the card, or email [email protected].