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Finding Fake Amazon Reviews

posted by martyb on Wednesday August 08 2018, @09:28AM   Printer-friendly
from the Fake-News...-Triple-Pun-Intended dept.

An Anonymous Coward writes:

Admittedly this is more of a Sla... I mean Soyvertisement. However, I just heard about it this weekend, and it sounds both interesting and useful. I thought others might find it interesting as well

Long story short: ReviewMeta is a website which can be used to try to detect fake reviews on Amazon.

In my defense, it is somewhat technologically interesting. The system supposedly uses various heuristics and algorithms in order to accomplish this, such as searching for suspicious submission patterns, text entered, and timing windows to try to find fakes.

The "news" source I heard it from was a radio/podcast at: https://www.npr.org/templates/transcript/transcript.php?storyId=623988370

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  • (Score: 2) by LoRdTAW on Wednesday August 08 2018, @04:39PM (1 child)

    by LoRdTAW (3755) on Wednesday August 08 2018, @04:39PM (#718843) Journal

    That's how I shop. I sort reviews from worst to best and read through them. A 5 star works great review is completely worthless compared to the one star containing a detailed rant about what exactly broke and why/how.

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  • (Score: 2) by FatPhil on Thursday August 09 2018, @12:49AM

    by FatPhil (863) <{pc-soylent} {at} {asdf.fi}> on Thursday August 09 2018, @12:49AM (#719153) Homepage
    Ditto. I'm a beer hunter, and if I'm presented with a list of beers too long to sample/buy them all at a bar or shop, then I will look at other raters' scores/reviews. But the fanboys never tell me anything. Idiot kneejerk haters (such as myself) tell me nothing, but haters who actually explain why they dislike a beer are the most informative. Often a hater's rant has informed me, correctly, that I will rather like a beer. "Ugh, tastes of barley, and some toasted bread - a disgusting dunkel!" - sign me up!
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