Billions of misleading ads and websites have been taken down by Google in 2016, the tech giant said.

In the recent blog, Google stats that, “We have a strict set of policies that govern the types of ads we do and don’t allow on Google in order to protect people from misleading, inappropriate, or harmful ads. And we have a team of engineers, policy experts, product managers and others who are waging a daily fight against bad actors.Over the years, this commitment has made the web a better place for you—and a worse place for those who seek to abuse advertising systems for their own gain.”

More than 1.7 billion ads has been taken down in 2016 that violated the Google’s advertising policy.

It would take 50 years if you spend one second to take down each ad, but Google has come up with the outstanding technology that work much faster, that results in taking down 1.7 billion misleading ads.

Quick review to the Google action in 2016 against misleading ads and scammers:

Up to 6000 sites and 6000 accounts has been suspended who advertised the fake and counterfeit (fake items deliberately made to look genuine) goods.

Google took action and blocked 900,000 ads that contain malware.

Around 15,000 have been disabled for unwanted software.

In 2016, 17 billion inappropriate ads has been taken down for illegal gambling violations.

It has taken down 1.7 billion ads that violated the advertising policies in 2016, more than double the amount of ads taken down in 2015.

Google’s efficient system also crackdown against “trick to click”, and disabled 112 million ads.

Nearly 23,000 ads removed for self-clicking ads attempt.

For violating healthcare policy more than 68 million bad ads eliminated and 12.5 million in 2015.

Approximately 7 million inappropriate ads removed for attempting trick Google’s detection systems.

About 80 million bad ads eliminated for deceiving, misleading and shocking users.

They took action on 47,000 sites for promoting content and products related to weight-loss scams.

In 2016 between November to December Google reviewed 550 sites posted misleading contents, from which 200 publishers were permanently banned from Google’s network while 340 of them were blocked. Google also has policies that ban publishers for running deceiving ads on sites where people buy fake diplomas or plagiarized term papers.

Google claims that it want to protect people from bad ad experience and they will continue to formulate strategy in fighting the bad content and fake news to make sure the safety of people digitally.