I was offered a hotel discount if I posted a (good) review for the place. Just another source of biased commentary.
20% of Yelp reviews are fake
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#12anyone who considers this news hasn't hang around freelancing sites. You can pay $10 for 20 yelp reviews.
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#13Another problem I've seen with Yelp is reviews that aren't actually for the intended place. My father-in-law owns a few restaurants. One of them has >300 reviews (solid 4 stars), but shares part of its' name with another restaurant with >1500 reviews (3.5 stars, with a heavy downward trend). Most reviews posted for his restaurant are either 4 or 5 stars, with the majority of lower reviews referencing the other restau…
Change your name. Seriously. Even without Yelp, you don't want potential customers hearing via word of mouth about how bad your restaurant was when it really was the one down the street. Names are relatively cheap to change and if you select a name that is related (like say, shortening it or incorporating part of the old name in the new one) and communicate what is going on with regulars, you'll limit any short-term…
That's a perfectly reasonable suggestion, but I don't foresee it happening. They've been there for >10 years, and have been very successful. The name isn't actually similar, and they're in very different parts of the city. There generally doesn't seem to be any real confusion except for a few Yelp reviews.
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#1420% LOL! If only it were that low. I used to be a reputation management company, at one time we were responsible for 10% of the reviews in Silicon Valley. There were metro's where we were about 80% of the reviews. When you think that the majority of companies have less than 10 reviews, and most owners can't resist doing a review, and having a friend do a review you are at 20% really fast. When you combine that with o…
Yeah, from the linked paper it looks like 20% is only the percentage of fakes that are statistically obvious.
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#15What I know is true: I've reviewed many places, yelp 'filters' my reviews as fake even though they are legitimate. So 20% of the ones they don't filter are fake, but several of the ones they do filter aren't fake? Sounds like the site is just fake.
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#16anyone who considers this news hasn't hang around freelancing sites. You can pay $10 for 20 yelp reviews.
The real news is that NY state is prosecuting fake paid reviews as fraud, the WSJ is reporting on it, and that HBS released a study with quantification of it. Also, this is another sign that the "Wild West" days of the Internet have ended.
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#17> There is one site where users share opinions with greater
> transparency than Yelp or Google: Facebook. The world’s
> biggest social-networking site prohibits the use of fake
> names.
Facebook isn't that transparent. You can't scrape Facebook.
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#18What I know is true: I've reviewed many places, yelp 'filters' my reviews as fake even though they are legitimate. So 20% of the ones they don't filter are fake, but several of the ones they do filter aren't fake? Sounds like the site is just fake.
Same here for some of my positive reviews. My one negative review? Went live and stayed live.
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#1920% LOL! If only it were that low. I used to be a reputation management company, at one time we were responsible for 10% of the reviews in Silicon Valley. There were metro's where we were about 80% of the reviews. When you think that the majority of companies have less than 10 reviews, and most owners can't resist doing a review, and having a friend do a review you are at 20% really fast. When you combine that with o…
Yeah, from the linked paper it looks like 20% is only the percentage of fakes that are statistically obvious.
I know that most people just look at the stars and make a decision.
Other people read the good reviews and determine to make their decision from that.
I read the bad reviews. 1 to 3 star reviews. I'd rather go to a place with a bifrication of bad and good reviews where the bad reviews are stuff I don't care about...
My theory is that if a place sucks it will definitely have bad reviews. A place that is great will still have a few, but they will be over stupid stuff (i.e. I expected something different etc.)
Re: 20% of Yelp reviews are fake
#20anyone who considers this news hasn't hang around freelancing sites. You can pay $10 for 20 yelp reviews.
The real news is that NY state is prosecuting fake paid reviews as fraud, the WSJ is reporting on it, and that HBS released a study with quantification of it. Also, this is another sign that the "Wild West" days of the Internet have ended.
"20% of Yelp reviews are fake" is what is being presented by the author as 'real news'.
If he wanted to go your way as the 'real news' he would have headlined it sometime like: "NY state starts prosecuting fake Yelp reviews" or something along those lines.