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Re:UK businesses caught buying five-star Google reviews by arkitaip on Tuesday March 09, 2021 @04:11PM (#26404321)
Do you have any idea how difficult it would be for a random dinky business to bribe an engineer at Google? There are businesses that are literally making bank for Google and still can't get in touch with a human being at Google when their Google account gets locked, app gets removed from the Play Store, etc.

What probably happened is that the business had friends and family members report your review which was removed by an automated system.

Re:UK businesses caught buying five-star Google reviews by liveoneggs on Tuesday March 09, 2021 @04:44PM (#26404730)
yeah but what about yext and friends getting special access for their clients?
Re:UK businesses caught buying five-star Google reviews by ghoward on Tuesday March 09, 2021 @04:30PM (#26404553)
The reason I am hesitant to believe that is because of the fact that the review _never_ showed up, not even briefly.

However, you could still be right.