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Re:This is the best drone according to Amazon? – The HS100 by hippich on Tuesday October 30, 2018 @01:33PM (#18339208)
In addition to obvious flaws others noted, these tools fails to catch a certain type of reviews manipulation:

Try:

https://reviewmeta.com/amazon/B07FTFFY24

https://www.fakespot.com/product/28pcs-wood-burning-kit-crea...

While fakespot gave D, it gave it for other reasons. What really happened there - seller completely replaced product on that page with another one. Read existing reviews to understand what is going on.

One more example - https://reviewmeta.com/amazon/B07FSW8VMQ - just read reviews to see how ridiculous it gets.

Not all of them are easy to detect. This seller added soldering iron as a variation to a wood burning unit - https://reviewmeta.com/amazon/B07D9H5H9Y - even by reading reviews you can't easily figure out fakeness of it. (https://www.fakespot.com/product/vastar-wood-burning-kit-44p... Fakespot gave A)

This type of blackhat stuff happens right now right and left. It is even cheaper/quicker/easier than paying reviewers for reviews now.

Re:This is the best drone according to Amazon? – The HS100 by ReviewMeta on Wednesday October 31, 2018 @10:21AM (#18345892)
Just wanted to chime in about this issue. We call it "Review Hijacking" and we've been seeing it more and more. We're actually starting to keep a history of any product title changes and also show you the different product variations that are being reviewed. On your second example, (https://reviewmeta.com/amazon/B07FSW8VMQ), you can click the link under the picture that says "See 3 product variations" and it will show you exactly the breakdown of reviews that come from a log carrier bag and a nut milk bag...

The first example is a little trickier since the first time we analyzed the product, the title had already been changed. (You can click on the "Title History" link for any product).

We're working on being able to detect when these changes/variations are normal or being used to deceive shoppers. It's extremely easy for a human to immediately tell, but much harder to train a computer to do it. For example, a seller might have a t-shirt with different product variations: "Large Blue", "Medium Green". These are very different words, but obviously a legit reason to have a bunch of variations.

Here's more info about Review Hijacking: https://reviewmeta.com/blog/amazon-review-hijacking/ and here's an article that BuzzFeed News recently did: https://www.buzzfeednews.com/article/nicolenguyen/amazon-rev...