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The financial goes by % I guess. You get a % for every booking through your website. But what happens on the technical side?!
Valuable things in a review would also be a listing of some travel essentials like availability of cost and speed of internet, microwave, fridge, room service hours, free shuttle availability, quality of concierge during night shifts, etc.
The main problem with a site like this is that the reviews in most of the guidebooks write something based on TripAdvisor or the like.
Most guidebooks these days are written by compilers who gather information from the internet.
Interesting... my corporate firewall flags your site with an adult-and-pornography filter. Did you recently purchase the domain from someone who may have been running a different type of site? :)
Yeah, that's so weird! We've heard that from a few people. We're currently looking into it. Neither of us can find any history of the domain being used for anything adult or porn related. So strange.
http://web.archive.org/web/20040601000000*/http://tripexpert...
The domainauctionhouse page had a link to domains for sale, which had an Adult section. Maybe the links to domains with bad words in them caused it to end up on filters.
http://web.archive.org/web/20050205024618/http://www.domaina...
Question on the trust factor: Why should a user trust "professional" reviews over the collective opinion of the crowds? Professionals can never experience everything, so will be working from a smaller knowledge base to start and are probably more corruptible than 150 MM people or wherever TripAdvisor is these days.
So how do you come up with the TripExpert score? Do you read every review, map it manually to a number, then get the average? Or is it more like Rotten Tomatoes where each review only gets a shot at a thumps up or thumps down, and then you average those?
Btw: Slight coding error: On city pages, hotel names are overlaid over the preview icon, which makes them very hard to read on Safari 5.1.
This is a great looking site but for me it illustrates the problem with "expert" sites versus "crowd" sites. Yeah, you have a ton of hotels in NYC, LA, etc. but I'm going on vacation to Connecticut and Maine this summer and there's nothing for either state in your search. I'd love to use it but there's going to need to be a lot more experts.