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The ads Google sells are marked as advertising. Spam isn't; it's usually not too hard to tell, but it mucks up the search result space. "Featured reviews" for
by Millennium 14y ago
The ads Google sells are marked as advertising. Spam isn't; it's usually not too hard to tell, but it mucks up the search result space.
"Featured reviews" for paying customers essentially become a form of paid advertising, but they are not clearly marked as such. That puts them closer to the spam side than the ad side.
- aiiane 14y agoYelp killed off featured reviews a while ago, specifically because they were controversial. It'd be useful if people didn't keep harping on things that aren't even valid anymore.