UK businesses caught buying five-star Google reviews
I once wrote a negative review of a business on Google, and it went up, but when I went to look at the business&#x27;s reviews under my wife&#x27;s Google account, it was not there. I waited an hour and checked. Then a couple hours and checked. Then a day. It never showed up.<p>I posted the review under her account and did the same checks for my account. It never showed up.<p>I do not know why it didn&#x27;t show up, but I wouldn&#x27;t be surprised if the business had been able to pay money to Google to be able to check reviews before they went live and mark them as spam.<p>Edit: Because some commenters did not seem to get the implied message, what I am actually implying is that in this context, or any context, I don&#x27;t trust Google. I have no evidence of what commenters said I have claimed. (I have not claimed anything; I just said I wouldn&#x27;t be surprised.)