There were a few google reviews for a service I recently used that I wondered about... Response from the owner This is spam and I reported it to google

There were a few google reviews for a service I recently used that I wondered about... Response from the owner This is spam and I reported it to google There were a handful of those review responses. Made me wonder if spam features could be abused to mask bad reviews. I think at least in Yelp you can still see the data right?