Comment by alopecoid

Nothing about this problem is new or unique to Google Maps. This was a problem in old phone books too (literally thousands of fake locksmiths, etc). And the yellow pages profited there too. Just because it's fashionable to hate on "big tech" these days, it doesn't mean that they've created problems like this. These are the same old problems, evolved to modern medium. What's the alternative? That we don't have services like this?