Black market in Google reviews means you can't believe everything you read
Interesting article about the fake review industry and how it works.
Black market in Google reviews means you can't believe everything you read | CBC News
Black market in Google reviews means you can't believe everything you read | CBC News
The incident is just one example of a widespread problem that's plaguing Google's popular star-rating system — a growing black market in which some companies pay for fake positive reviews, while others are seemingly being extorted by web firms who post negative comments then propose their "review-fixing" services to get them taken down.
Using data gathering and analysis techniques, a CBC News investigation has catalogued just a portion of one fake review network: 1,279 businesses across North America connected by 208 fake accounts that posted 3,574 fake reviews...
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