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Google To Scan YouTube For Inflated Counts
- The Guardian, Wednesday, February 5, 2014 2:10 PM
YouTube visitors watch more than six billion hours of video every month, but not all of those eyeballs are real. Google has announced a crackdown on "fraudulent views" on YouTube, from channels seeking to artificially inflate their view counts. The move follows a warning delivered by YouTube to its network of channel owners in November 2013.
