Google pulled ‘millions’ of junk Play Store ratings in one week

Google is just as frustrated with bogus app reviews as you are, and it’s apparently bending over backwards to improve the trustworthiness of the feedback you see. The company instituted a system this year that uses a mix of AI and human oversight to cull junk Play Store reviews and the apps that promote them, and the results are slightly intimidating. In an unspecified recent week, Google removed “millions” of dodgy ratings and reviews, and “thousands” of apps encouraging shady behavior. There are a lot of attempts to game Android app reviews, in other words.