blogs.miaminewtimes.com— Yelp says businesses will no longer be allowed to choose which reviews appear first in their listings. Also, the site will begin including separate links to show any reviews that are removed.
Apr 6, 2010View in Crawl 4
As long as there are references in a Wikipedia article, I will follow the links to those references to have a degree of comfort with what I'm trying to learn about. Yelp and blogs are just people's opinions.
If the review is helpful and/or descriptive, then I will judge it on the merits. The same with Amazon reviews. I'm not so much looking for how much they like/dislike it. Rather I want some details about the place. But this practice of pressuring the businesses to sign up really troubles me. If they are attempting to manipulate the raw data based on business paying or not, that is BS.
Now someone just needs to start a class-action suit against them for removing negative reviews... like that one restaurant a few months back that had a couple patrons arrested for refusing to pay a mandatory gratuity after s**tty service... IIRC Yelp removed like, two hundred negative reviews.
Yes, they do have to make money, but it looks like they took Rip-Off Report's business model and tried to legitimize it, and it didn't work out so well. I still write reviews there all the time, and my reviews usually stick (even the scathing ones). The legal system worked out as it is supposed to: someone felt unjustly wronged by a business practice, sued, and the process is changing.All businesses need to learn high-pressure sales sucks for business, and sucks for turnover.
I'm from NYC, and I like to dine out, so naturally I use Yelp and citysearch a lot for discovering new places and kinds of food. I have to say, they're both pretty accurate in terms of their reviews, stars ... etc. If Yelp gives it a 4 - 5 star, you can be pretty sure it's going to be a good restaurant, and will probably find similar reviews across the board with other websites as well.So yes, I trust it, not because I trust random people I've never met, but because my personal experience tells me so.
rudeturnipApr 7, 2010
As long as there are references in a Wikipedia article, I will follow the links to those references to have a degree of comfort with what I'm trying to learn about. Yelp and blogs are just people's opinions.
berkanaApr 7, 2010
Screw you, spammer! Reported as spam.
tomleykisApr 7, 2010
Yelp is very shady. I am surprised they have been around for this long without having to shut down.
labuzanApr 7, 2010
If the review is helpful and/or descriptive, then I will judge it on the merits. The same with Amazon reviews. I'm not so much looking for how much they like/dislike it. Rather I want some details about the place. But this practice of pressuring the businesses to sign up really troubles me. If they are attempting to manipulate the raw data based on business paying or not, that is BS.
labuzanApr 7, 2010
You gotta be kidding me.
centranApr 7, 2010
sorry to say but you basically caused it.Once yelp gets a review for a business they start to hound them to pay up.
elmuerte17Apr 7, 2010
Now someone just needs to start a class-action suit against them for removing negative reviews... like that one restaurant a few months back that had a couple patrons arrested for refusing to pay a mandatory gratuity after s**tty service... IIRC Yelp removed like, two hundred negative reviews.
gusterbearApr 7, 2010
Yes, they do have to make money, but it looks like they took Rip-Off Report's business model and tried to legitimize it, and it didn't work out so well. I still write reviews there all the time, and my reviews usually stick (even the scathing ones). The legal system worked out as it is supposed to: someone felt unjustly wronged by a business practice, sued, and the process is changing.All businesses need to learn high-pressure sales sucks for business, and sucks for turnover.
random314Apr 7, 2010
I'm from NYC, and I like to dine out, so naturally I use Yelp and citysearch a lot for discovering new places and kinds of food. I have to say, they're both pretty accurate in terms of their reviews, stars ... etc. If Yelp gives it a 4 - 5 star, you can be pretty sure it's going to be a good restaurant, and will probably find similar reviews across the board with other websites as well.So yes, I trust it, not because I trust random people I've never met, but because my personal experience tells me so.
esornosoApr 7, 2010
Yelp- The place for shady business