Google rolling out improved fraud and spam detection in the Play Store

We've all seen it—an app with just a few too many suspicious five-star reviews or an unlikely high number of installs in a short period of time. Google cites these attempts to manipulate the Play Store as a a hindrance to its recommendation system, and ultimately to the experience of end users. Today, it's implementing a new filtering system to spot these apps.

Apps that are using fraudulent installs, fake reviews, and incentivized ratings are all at risk of being flagged by the new filters.

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Google rolling out improved fraud and spam detection in the Play Store was written by the awesome team at Android Police.

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