Google announced its 2021 Google Maps and Google Business Profile spam fighting efforts, like it did for the 2020 year. Google said it blocked more than 100 million Business Profile edits and protected over 100 thousand businesses from suspicious activity and abuse attempts.
Google has been trying hard to portray a better image for its Google Maps quality efforts recently and here are some highlights of those efforts:
- 100 million fraudulent and abusive Google Business Profile edits were blocked
- 7 million fake Google Business Profile were removed