{"id":1813701,"date":"2023-04-03T09:25:57","date_gmt":"2023-04-03T13:25:57","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.maproomblog.com\/?p=1813701"},"modified":"2023-04-03T09:25:57","modified_gmt":"2023-04-03T13:25:57","slug":"how-google-deals-with-fake-content-on-google-maps","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.maproomblog.com\/2023\/04\/how-google-deals-with-fake-content-on-google-maps\/","title":{"rendered":"How Google Deals with Fake Content on Google Maps"},"content":{"rendered":"

In a blog post last Friday, Google offers some detail on how it combats fraudulent user-submitted content on Google Maps<\/a>. These include fake business profiles, fake reviews, contributed photos with fake phone numbers\u2014it\u2019s basically about business listings. (There was a time, of course, when fake user-submitted content was to the map itself<\/a>.) They report something like 115 million reviews, 200 million photos and 20 million fake business profiles\u2014no wonder they\u2019re using machine learning to deal with it all. (Compare with Google\u2019s February 2021 post<\/a> on the same subject: the numbers are up<\/em>.)<\/p>\n

Previously: Millions of Business Listings on Google Maps Are Fake: WSJ<\/a>; How Many Fake Business Listings Are There on Google Maps?<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

In a blog post last Friday, Google offers some detail on how it combats fraudulent user-submitted content on Google Maps. These include fake business profiles, fake reviews, contributed photos with fake phone numbers\u2014it\u2019s basically about… More<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"link","meta":{"autoblue_enabled":true,"autoblue_custom_message":"","autoblue_shares":[],"autoblue_post_url":"","_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[80],"tags":[822,462,82],"class_list":["post-1813701","post","type-post","status-publish","format-link","hentry","category-mobile","tag-fraud","tag-google","tag-google-maps","post_format-post-format-link"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":1787450,"url":"https:\/\/www.maproomblog.com\/2019\/06\/millions-of-business-listings-on-google-maps-are-fake-wsj\/","url_meta":{"origin":1813701,"position":0},"title":"Millions of Business Listings on Google Maps Are Fake: WSJ","author":"Jonathan Crowe","date":"20 June 2019","format":"link","excerpt":"The Wall Street Journal goes in-depth on a problem Google Maps has had for years: fake and deceptive business listings posted by scam artists that crowd out legitimate local businesses\u2014as many as 11 million such listings at any given moment, according to experts. 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