Abusive Google Maps reviews account for less than 1% of the content viewed on the platform, Google said. Here are the kind of malicious reviews or Google Maps edits the company stopped or blocked last year.7 million fake Business Profiles – users reported more than 630,000 of themmore than 95 million policy-violating reviews, 60,000 of which were COVID-19-related offensesmore than 190 million photos and 5 million videos that were blurry, low quality, or violated content policies.
Furthermore, the Google disabled 1 million accounts involved in fraudulent Google Maps reviews and other policy-violating activities. Google also said it protected 100,000 businesses after detecting suspicious activity. That’s not to say that Google catches all fraudulent Google Maps reviews on the platform. But the 2021 stats certainly paint a good picture. You can still report questionable reviews to improve Google’s ability to reduce online abuse.
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