Over 170 million fake reviews were removed from Maps and Search thanks to Google's new algorithm

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• andrew@lemmy.stuart.fun ⁨9⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  Okay cool. Now publish that stat on the businesses so I can see which ones are cool with unethical things and avoid them.

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  • Hule@lemmy.world ⁨9⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    Nooo, data protection yada-yada…

    business partners’ trust yada-yada…

    ambiguity of responsability yada-yada…

    No.

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    • andrew@lemmy.stuart.fun ⁨9⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      Seems like an easy response. Fake reviews are fraud and against the TOC. But then again you could fake reviews for a competitor and tank their rating.

      Goodhart’s law is a pain.

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• J12@lemmy.world ⁨9⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

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  • FatAdama@programming.dev ⁨9⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    They certainly know how to find them, am I right (nudges J12)?

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• bonnetbee@lemmy.world ⁨9⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  I opened a google account and wrote two genuine reviews. Both were rejected automatically. I pressed a button to let them check again, they were again rejected.

  I deleted my account again and remembered why I deleted my first account a few years ago. Google sucks, they can’t controll their own algorythms, they are a faceless mega corp that harvests data like crazy. Everyones life would be better, if google vanished from the face of earth right now.

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• ininewcrow@lemmy.ca ⁨9⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  lol … it’s very easy to identify the fake reviews when you were the one that allowed them in the first place

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• GilgameshCatBeard@lemmy.ca ⁨9⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  Do Amazon next!

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