>Perhaps Google considered that to be lawsuit bait, or perhaps they considered it to be proprietary. I don't think it has anything to do with being afraid of l

>Perhaps Google considered that to be lawsuit bait, or perhaps they considered it to be proprietary. I don't think it has anything to do with being afraid of lawsuits (or every consumer review company would be out of business) or worried about competition getting that information. They most likely get some kind of volume pricing discount (or even pricing based on experienced reliability) that is dependent on them not releasing such data.