Google said it removed over 3 million fake business profiles from Google Maps in 2018, with more than 90% of those pulled before being seen by users.
Product director Ethan Russell said in a blog post that there are over 200 million places on Google Maps, and the application connects people to businesses more than 9 million times per month, including over 1 billion phone calls and 3 billion requests for directions.
He wrote, “Every month, Maps is used by more than 1 billion people around the world, and every day, we and our users work as a community to improve the map for each other.
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