Alphabet's Google on Friday sued a Los Angeles man and his companies in San Jose, California federal court, claiming he created hundreds of fake business listings on its platforms and sold them to real businesses to lure in unsuspecting customers.

Good, there’s always a bunch of fake astroturfed reviews.

  • gorkx@kbin.social
    3·
    1 year ago

    @gibbedygook lol it took this long? omg! I got muted for saying I had a awful experience with a business. but a bunch of gushing creepypasta reviews were ok.

      • gorkx@kbin.social
        2·
        1 year ago

        @gibbedygook lol yep. lol let me tell you something. I had. key word had a bunch of cool af remixes of songs from some local artists on youtube. a few gave me wavs or mp3s to put up on youtube. I liked the remixes. a bunch of classical, some were remixed 80s music. So I put them on youtube, in a playlist. Just saying it was free and were good remixes. Others were rare AF recordings of classical pieces.
        I don’t know how fast it was for google to winge about coppy right…but it was fast.
        but bullshit reviews from bots? that was tollerated…egad.

      • Maeve@kbin.social
        1·
        1 year ago

        You know how when businesses screw over their employees and a bunch of people hear about it and go leave a review of that business?

        Yeah, I’m betting this is more about screwing over employees and regular people, despite ostensible reasons.

  • gorkx@kbin.social
    1·
    1 year ago

    @gibbedygook What is it about…how I say. I strangely specific kind of person from oddly specific areas. Where they bullshit reviews? And why am I not surprised crunchies bit on the bs hook line and sinker? sigh.

  • Gsus4@lemmy.one
    1·
    1 year ago

    meta question from a new user still recovering from reddit-brain: why do some posts have 0 upvotes if downvoting is not allowed? Is downvoting somehow possible? If you mouseover the upvote number, it lists 0 downvotes.