The
Google Maps team announced this week that due to major Google Maps spam and
violations, removed approx 4 Million fake business listing profiles and approx
75 million policies-violating reviews from local profiles in 2019 as mentioned
below.
- Disabled and removed 475,000 user accounts
- 3 Million Videos and 10 Million Photos were removed
- Due to contributor reports 580,000 reviews were removed
- Due to contributor reports 258,000 business profiles were removed
- Removed 75 million reviews
- Removed 4 million business profiles
You can see also forum discussion at Twitter https://twitter.com/Google/status/1230229180295602176