Over 170 Million Reviews Removed by Google from Maps and Search
Google has said it blocked or removed more than 170 million policy-violating reviews in Maps and search last year – using its new machine learning (ML) algorithm. Last year, this new algorithm helped the tech giant remove 45 percent more fake reviews than the year before. More than 12 million fake business profiles were also blocked, the company said. “Last year, we released a new machine learning algorithm that identifies questionable review patterns even faster. It does this by examining long-term signals on a daily basis—for example, if a reviewer…
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