There are now additional problems because of the different SNP microarrays used by the testing companies which have a low overlap. Companies have special techniques such as phasing and imputation to try and overcome the low overlap but there is inevitably a high false positive rate on the smaller matches.
Here are a few articles for further reading:
https://thegeneticgenealogist.com/2017/12/29/a-small-segment-round-up/
https://isogg.org/wiki/Identical_by_descent
https://isogg.org/wiki/Autosomal_SNP_comparison_chart
In general the matches at AncestryDNA are the most reliable as they have the most sophisticated algorithms backed up by solid science.
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