Systems and methods of correlating business information to determine spam, closed businesses, and ranking signals

摘要

Systems and methods are provided for determining whether given business listings are spam or are closed businesses. In one example, a system receives a business listing from a user. The business listing contains a geolocation and the name of a business. The system also receives one or more street level images related to a geographic object that is at or near the same geolocation as the business listing. The system determines if the business listing is spam or is closed based on the received street level images by determining if the geographic object is the business or by analyzing whether the business associated with the listing is shown in any of the street level images.

主权项

1. A method of determining if a business listing is a valid business listing, the method comprising:
receiving a business listing that contains geolocation information and the name of a business; receiving an originating time of the business that identifies when the business was set up at an address indicated by the geolocation information of the business listing; receiving an image related to a geographic object initially associated with the business listing; receiving timing information related to when the image was captured; verifying, with a processor, if the geographic object is actually associated with the business by comparing the geolocation information of the business listing with location information of the image; and if the business listing is not associated with the location information of the image, determining with the processor that the business listing is spam or is a closed business, wherein the determination is based at least in part on whether the originating time is after the timing information.