{"id":17447,"date":"2025-01-24T13:38:49","date_gmt":"2025-01-24T12:38:49","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/2025\/01\/24\/google-agrees-to-crack-down-on-fake-reviews-for-uk-businesses\/"},"modified":"2025-01-24T13:38:49","modified_gmt":"2025-01-24T12:38:49","slug":"google-agrees-to-crack-down-on-fake-reviews-for-uk-businesses","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/2025\/01\/24\/google-agrees-to-crack-down-on-fake-reviews-for-uk-businesses\/","title":{"rendered":"Google agrees to crack down on fake reviews for UK businesses"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Tech company will issue \u2018warning\u2019 alerts on profiles of firms that manipulate star ratings, says CMA<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/business\/live\/2025\/jan\/24\/davos-day-four-global-economy-imf-ecb-trump-tariff-threat-business-live\">Business live \u2013 latest updates<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Google has agreed to do more to identify and remove fake reviews, including sanctioning rogue individuals and UK businesses that have manipulated their star ratings, the UK\u2019s competition watchdog has said.<\/p>\n<p>The tech company will also issue \u201cwarning\u201d alerts on the profiles of businesses that use fake reviews to boost their ratings, the Competition and Markets Authority (CMA) said.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/technology\/2025\/jan\/24\/google-fake-reviews-uk-star-ratings-cma\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><br \/>\n<img src=\"https:\/\/i.guim.co.uk\/img\/media\/05ff4a8c9e0f030026ecb64ef861d1245bf88a99\/0_303_3500_2100\/master\/3500.jpg?width=140&amp;quality=85&amp;auto=format&amp;fit=max&amp;s=2863d6c4e4b337bae8992bc4c6835aeb\" title=\"Google agrees to crack down on fake reviews for UK businesses\" \/>Tech company will issue \u2018warning\u2019 alerts on profiles of firms that manipulate star ratings, says CMA<br \/>\nBusiness live \u2013 latest updates<br \/>\nGoogle has agreed to do more to identify and remove fake reviews, including sanctioning rogue individuals and UK businesses that have manipulated their star ratings, the UK\u2019s competition watchdog has said.<br \/>\nThe tech company will also issue \u201cwarning\u201d alerts on the profiles of businesses that use fake reviews to boost their ratings, the Competition and Markets Authority (CMA) said. Continue reading&#8230;Technology | The Guardian<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Tech company will issue \u2018warning\u2019 alerts on profiles of firms that manipulate star ratings, says CMA Business live \u2013 latest updates Google has agreed to do more to identify and remove fake reviews, including sanctioning rogue individuals and UK businesses that have manipulated their star ratings, the UK\u2019s competition watchdog has said. The tech company &hellip;<\/p>\n<p class=\"read-more\"> <a class=\"\" href=\"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/2025\/01\/24\/google-agrees-to-crack-down-on-fake-reviews-for-uk-businesses\/\"> <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Google agrees to crack down on fake reviews for UK businesses<\/span> Read More &raquo;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":0,"featured_media":17448,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17447"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=17447"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17447\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/17448"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=17447"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=17447"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=17447"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}