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Re:UK businesses caught buying five-star Google reviews by ipsum2 on Tuesday March 09, 2021 @03:18PM (#26403612)
> but I wouldn't be surprised if the business had been able to pay money to Google to be able to check reviews before they went live and mark them as spam.

Do you have any evidence of this claim? Have you seen businesses be able to do that? Surely, the hundreds of thousands of businesses on Google, one of them has talked about the ability to remove reviews.

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Re:UK businesses caught buying five-star Google reviews by donaldo on Tuesday March 09, 2021 @03:21PM (#26403636)
Yeah agreed. Do they think Google just has some checkout button to block bad reviews for $299.
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Re:UK businesses caught buying five-star Google reviews by zaphirplane on Tuesday March 09, 2021 @09:14PM (#26406980)
Of course not, you need to be logged in to a google account and solve a captcha ;)
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Re:UK businesses caught buying five-star Google reviews by ghoward on Tuesday March 09, 2021 @03:35PM (#26403828)
Nope. No evidence.

That's why I said that "I would not be surprised if..." which doesn't make a concrete claim. To me, it means, "I don't know, but it seems plausible in my limited experience."

I am making no claim other than pure speculation, and I know it.

Edit: typo.

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