Re:Amazon ‘flooded by fake five-star reviews’ – report
by ALittleLight on Monday April 15, 2019 @08:59PM
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You're right that there is an arms race between fake reviewers and Amazon, but the conclusion - that because it's a race Amazon shouldn't try, is spurious. Amazon should pursue the race aggressively, and because they can allocate more money and software developers to the contest than any one group of fake reviewers, they should also ultimately win.
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Re:Amazon ‘flooded by fake five-star reviews’ – report
by tyingq on Monday April 15, 2019 @10:29PM
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I don't think there's an arms race. Is there really evidence Amazon has even thrown any shots across any bows?
Re:Amazon ‘flooded by fake five-star reviews’ – report
by thinkloop on Monday April 15, 2019 @09:05PM
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You're right. Is Amazon not applying any machine learning to their reviews? Google solved spam email and that seems similar.
Re:Amazon ‘flooded by fake five-star reviews’ – report
by plorkyeran on Monday April 15, 2019 @09:39PM
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Google beat email spam, but has fared much worse with fighting blackhat SEO. Email spam has evolved remarkably little in the face of spam filters, and it may be that they were able to "solve" it simply because there never was all that much money to be made from it in the first place.