Google announced this week that what it has done in 2019 to combat Google Maps spam and violations. Google removed 4 million fake business profiles from Google My Business in 2019. It also removed 75 million policy-violating reviews from local profiles.
Here are some of the highlights in bullet format:
- 4 million business profiles removed
- 75 million reviews removed
- 258,000 of those business profiles removed were due to contributor reports
- 580,000 of those reviews removed were due to contributor reports
- 10 million photos and 3 million videos were removed
- 475,000 user accounts were disabled and removed
This is all work done by both technologies and humans at Google.
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