Is Yelp saying that if
the reviews are fake, they'd take them down?
On the other hand, who knows whether some of
the reviews are fake or even non-clients attempting to hurt a competing law firm.
It got to a point where we were actually wondering if all these online
reviews are fake, or really made by genuine people who stayed there.
Because the story made the NY Times, one expert estimates that a third of all Amazon
reviews are fake.
Amazon and Goodreads
reviews are fake.
In the context of this story, bad
reviews are fake news.
«There is no way to say with 100 percent certainty that a particular
review is fake,» he explains.
One sign that a restaurant
review is a fake is if it gives a very high or very low rating without many specifics.
These need to be honest reviews: you don't want readers to feel like
your review was fake.
I feel like most of
these reviews are faked because I bought your medication for my animals and they got sick.
All reviews submitted are published (unless we think
the review is a fake), even if it is a bad review of someone who paid for a classified.
Not exact matches
And there
's fake Yelp
reviews about Career Fox that came out of the media storm.
There
were more
faked Facebook pages comprising an alternate universe, with online comments and
reviews and references to email and videos, as well as an imposter purporting to
be their son conversing with the alleged pedophile.
In addition to making news for alleged extortion and
fake reviews, Yelp also makes headlines for
being a platform for outrage.
Vice writer Oobah Butler — who also recently impersonated a designer for Paris Fashion Week — already had a bit of experience with gaming
review sites, having previously
been paid to write
fake reviews by a shady PR service.
But this coffee maker might
be most worth a try: It
's a # 1 best - seller on Amazon with over 1,500
reviews and a 4.5 rating, and it gets an A on the site Fakespot, which spots which products might have
fake reviews.
WASHINGTON, Nov 21 - New York State Attorney Eric Schneiderman on Tuesday said he has
been investigating for six months who posted significant numbers of
fake comments filed with the Federal Communications Commission in its
review of net neutrality rules.
Amazon
is heading to court again, trying to wipe out more
fake product
reviews for books and products posted on Amazon.com.
Deliberately
fake content, copied or stolen photos, off - topic
reviews, defamatory language, personal attacks, and unnecessary or incorrect content
are all in violation of our policy.
I don't agree with making a
fake site and I believe made up
reviews is entirely unethical, but I do agree with owning your own name and preventing someone from posting a site calling you a scam out of spite.
Bogus followers or
fake reviews aren't just annoying — they call into question the very notion of crowdsourcing, one of the Internet's most valuable tools.
Anyone who
's read oddly positive online
reviews or happened on Twitter users with suspiciously large followings knows that the Internet
is full of
fakes.
Bitcoin Code has
been on the market for a relatively long time, and the problem
is that he has a generous affiliate program, so you find a lot of
fake reviews for him that recommend him for money.
I tried to offer evidence proving my filtered (all 5 stars)
reviews were not solicited or
fake, and I
was basically told to fuck myself.
(CNN)- A team of scientists has concluded that a controversial scrap of papyrus that purportedly quotes Jesus referring to «my wife,»
is not a
fake, according to the Harvard Theological
Review.
So if it
was «proven
fake» then why
is it only on conspiracy theorist websites with no actual legal backing or
review?
BUYER BEWARE... GREAT
REVIEWS HAVE TO
BE FAKE.
LSU
was robbed of a
fake field goal touchdown by an inexplicable replay
review late in the first half, but this
was a fun, wide open game.
These
fake «negative»
reviews are designed to flood search engine results and convince skeptics to overcome their initial sense of doubt and become believers (and more importantly, buyers of his product).
The good
reviews are all
fake.
A quick google search and you will find
reviews and warnings against
fakes being sold online.
«To achieve this, all the states in northern Nigeria, should establish and strengthen the state task force on counterfeit and
fake drugs and unwholesome processed foods, revoke all land titles where drugs
are being sold and
review the laws to provide stiff penalties for offenders.
«We have some 30 papers in peer -
reviewed journals where we
are actually sure that they
are fake, and there
are more to come,» says Pim Levelt, chair of the committee that investigated Stapel's work at the university.
These
are journals that sport
fake impact factors, that promise a 1 - week peer
review, that publish tons of papers that contain plagiarism, and that annoy researchers worldwide with doltish spam.»
Unlike
fake news stories that someone writes and then tries to spread virally through social media, artificial
reviews work only if they
are manufactured in volume and posted to sites where a particular item
is sold or advertised.
So far, GMP
Review and Ludus Vitalis
are the only ones with
fake journals open for business.
Leo Depuydt, a professor of Egyptology at Brown University, said in a statement in the Harvard Theological
Review that the fragment
is so obviously
fake that it «seems ripe for a «Monty Python» sketch.»
(Since the authors concluded their analysis, the number of retractions due to
faked reviews has continued to pile up; our latest tally
is now 324.)
As we reported last month, Elsevier
is retracting 26 papers affected by
fake reviews; Ahmad Salar Elahi
is corresponding author on 24 of them, including Khajehnezhad's now - retracted paper published in International Journal of Hydrogen Energy.
Elsevier has retracted 13 papers — and says it will retract 13 more — after discovering they
were accepted because of
fake reviews.
Some
reviews online demonstrate that the product Xanogen
was promoted with «
fake blogs» and «
fake reviews».
Moreover, many of the 5 - star
reviews of this supplement on Amazon appear to
be fake.
There
are over 300
reviews on the Murad website, but because these acne supplement
reviews are from their website you can not
be sure if they
are real or
fake.
We do not include ClearZine before and after images into this
review because it can
be difficult to realize what
is always real or
fake online.
Amazon.com (though, read
reviews — some suspect Amazon's Ohhirra to
be fake or counterfeit product — thats why I always order this product from iHerb.com even though its a lot more expensive) or iHerb.com.
In fact, if the
reviews on acne websites average around somewhere in the middle then it
's more likely you should disregard them; a portion of online
reviews for products
are nearly always
fake or written by overly hopeful people who simply imagined the effects.
After
reviewing this Louis Vuitton Neverfull MM Damier Canvas
fake bag I can say that it
is a pretty good replica, it
is manufactured with good materials and it imitates very all the logo and markings of the real bag.
The 4
reviews before me must not have ordered the same dress i did, or they
are fake reviews created by this company.
Apologies for the delay, I
was meant to
review this yesterday, but after I dropped a couple of hints on Twitter @ 30dates about how well the date with the
Fake Pimpernel
was going, I had too many demands for the date write - up, so decided to prioritise that post!
But from what I hear from JT and from reading
reviews of dating sites on the internet
is that they don't work, they
're fake, etc..