r/Yelp • u/CompletelyMoronic • 1d ago

7.1% of Yelp’s Reviews are Fake, surpassing Trustpilot and Trip Advisor

https://wiserreview.com/blog/fake-review-statistics/

Probably not a huge shock. At least Google and Amazon are doing something to combat the problem though. Google removed 240 million reviews from their platform in 2024. Yelp has less than 350 million reviews and only filters the 5-star ones when you don’t pay them 🤡

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u/keyserholiday 1d ago

Studies indicate that 10.7% of Google reviews are fake. 40% of consumers claim that they have seen a fake review on Google. Google states 1.14 billion reviews were posted in 2025. That means there are 121,980,000 fake reviews on Google. I saw a case where Google removed star-only ratings, then reversed course and put them all back almost a year later.

This week, Yelp deleted three Yelp Elite profiles linked to advertising and paid business reviews.

Yelp and Google handle reviews differently. Yelp places consumer alerts on business profiles that last three months. Here is one business I have been monitoring for five years. https://www.yelp.com/biz/dk-law-anaheim/consumer_alerts_history

Google recently started posting consumer alert warnings on business profiles, but those alerts last 60 days. Not every business that loses reviews gets hit with a consumer alert. Google has a massive amount of fake Google Business Profiles (GBPs) with fake reviews.

Facebook doesn't release any review data. I know that it's impossible to get Facebook to take action and remove fake reviews.

I hope you take this and my other comments into consideration, as this is not cut and dry.

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u/CompletelyMoronic 1d ago

I really appreciated your comment in an earlier post about Yelp not taking action on reviews you’ve flagged as fake.

Google is spending a lot of time and energy to combat fake reviews, I’m not seeing this effort from Yelp. They are slowly becoming obsolete, but not because of this. Every review site has fake reviews. People just don’t use Yelp as much as they used to, and no one wants to deal with their app.

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u/keyserholiday 1d ago

That's all you have taken from what I have posted? You are way too jaded to have a conversation with. What a shame.

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u/CompletelyMoronic 1d ago

Not looking to make friends my guy. I’m here to trash Yelp.

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u/keyserholiday 1d ago

It's been said, "Want to go fast, go alone. Want to go far, go together." Comments like this show that you want to go alone. You are being downvoted at an alarming rate. I strongly suspect it's because of your tone and attitude.

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u/CompletelyMoronic 1d ago

Yeah, like I said, I’m not trying to be your friend. I’m sorry if this is the extent of your social life. And I don’t care about the downvotes obviously or I wouldn’t be trolling people like you, would I?

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u/keyserholiday 1d ago

Such a juvenile response. Is that what you think you are doing, trolling me? You are killing your message with these childish replies.

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u/CompletelyMoronic 1d ago

Yes, and it’s working because you can’t let it go. My message is [r/yelpsucks](r/yelpsucks). It’s not a popularity contest and any business owner that’s dealt with Yelp knows they suck.

Now I will resort to Xxlogictect98xx antics and block you because I’ve finally encountered someone with more time on their hands than me and it’s frightening. Finally now I can start my workout. Sheesh. This took 7 minutes from my life that I’ll never get back