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Just curious, if you were Google, how would you fix this? And take the question seriously, because it's harder than it sounds. They are certainly trying. It's
by socalgal2 11mo ago
Just curious, if you were Google, how would you fix this? And take the question seriously, because it's harder than it sounds.
They are certainly trying. It's not good for them to have fake listings.
https://podcast.rainmakerreputation.com/2412354/episodes/16941865-maps-spam-wars-google-s-battle-against-fake-maps-listings-reviews https://podcast.rainmakerreputation.com/2412354/episodes/169...
(just googled that, didn't listen, was looking for a much older podcast from I think Reply All from like 10yrs ago)
- lunias 11mo agoIt definitely sounds like a hard problem. I'm not familiar with the current process, but based on what I found when I looked it up, it seems like there is a verification step already in place, but some of the methods of verification are tenuous. The method that seems the most secure to me is delivering a pin to the physical location that's being registered, but I feel like everything is exploitable.
- noAnswer 11mo agoThey could send real mail to the address with an activate code in it.
- Eisenstein 11mo agoWhy does Google get to say 'its hard' and we have to give them a pass? If a business is providing a service, they need to ensure it is doing what it claims. Whether it is difficult or not is not our problem.
- socalgal2 11mo agoGoogle isn't the one doing anything wrong. The people posting false listing are the ones doing something wrong.
- Eisenstein 11mo agoGoogle represents this data as legitimate.