Google Removed More than 75 Million Reviews from Maps in 2019
https://blog.googleGoogle has shared some stats on how much spam it’s fighting on the local front on Google maps, they also mentioned that they are using a combination of people and technology to fight spam on this front.
Key points:
- There are over 120 million Local Guides across 24,000 cities and towns on Google Maps
- They get around 20 million contributions each day
In 2019:
- they removed more than 75 million policy-violating reviews and 4 million fake business profiles (out of which 580,000 reviews and 258,000 business profiles were directly reported to them)
- reviewed and removed more than 10 million photos and 3 million videos that violated their content policies
- disabled more than 475,000 user accounts