This time, Google says it will not intervene.
Second wave
Once again, the now infamous stock trading app Robinhood finds itself with a completely awkward rating in the Google Play Store.
And this time, Google is not going to save it, a company spokesman said The edge. Robinhood became unpopular from the start, especially after it barred users from buying shares in companies like GameStop and AMC in response to the Wall Street Bets fiasco. Now negative reviews are flooding in on all sorts of issues, and the app’s reputation seems to be irreparably tainted.
A star
At press time, an almost comic majority of the reviews on Google’s Play Store Robinhood rate one out of five stars, achieving an average rating of only 1.1 / 5.
This has already happened last week following Robinhood’s restrictions on Wall Street Bets. At the time, Google stepped in and removed 100,000 negative reviews, viewing it as a coordinated effort to downgrade the app’s rating and thus against the company’s policies.
Hands off
This time, however, Google sticks to it.
“Google Play’s app review systems are designed to provide a true and reliable view of an app’s user experience, and we take action on any spurious or coordinated activity aimed at artificially overriding an app’s total score. increase or decrease, “a Google spokesman said. The edge. “To make it clear, this is not done to protect an app from negative reviews, but to protect app developers from things like coordinated bombing and to prevent our systems from being artificially manipulated.”
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