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Re:UK businesses caught buying five-star Google reviews by zeepzeep on Wednesday March 10, 2021 @04:25AM (#26409424)
> My personal preference would be to prevent 3rd party companies like google from publishing reviews if the business owner doesn't want them.

I like the fact that there's a third party controlling reviews, not the company itself. We all know how legit those Testimonials on websites are... I agree that it can have a bad effect, fake reviews are bad, but better than only fake reviews hosted by the company they're about.

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Re:UK businesses caught buying five-star Google reviews by agsamek on Wednesday March 10, 2021 @05:28AM (#26409815)
The review was against google policy (conflict of interests) and google provided ways to remove it were not handled by google at all. So this was not the case of taking off a legit review.
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Re:UK businesses caught buying five-star Google reviews by ClumsyPilot on Wednesday March 10, 2021 @05:27AM (#26409801)
The proof is in the pudding, and unfortunately Google is not proving any more reliable than asking a random alcoholic that happens to be nearby
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