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Google maps reviews are of way lower quality compared to both Yelp and TripAdvisor. Lots of 3-word reviews or barely English reviews. I’m sure there are more of
by ilikehurdles 7y ago
Google maps reviews are of way lower quality compared to both Yelp and TripAdvisor. Lots of 3-word reviews or barely English reviews. I’m sure there are more of them but I don’t value them at all.
I think there’s a weird culture around yelp reviews especially of people who openly label themselves as yelpers. I haven’t met them but it’s an easy group to mock. I’d bet a lot of those restaurants don’t realize how many visitors end up at their business because they saw something they liked about it on yelp despite not being some kind of power users of the site.
Frankly I like the platform more for discovery than reviewing, but generally most restaurants at 4 stars or above are pretty consistently good, while those between 1 and 3 are pretty consistently trash. It’s also nice being able to search reviews for menu items and things like “happy hour” or “patio”.
Lately I use Eater a lot more than any user-driven service though.
- ryantgtg 7y agoA few year ago my wife and I decided to look up all the restaurants we regularly go to, and we were surprised to find that pretty much all of them rated 3.5 stars on yelp. Perhaps that rating helps ensure we won’t have to wait for tables. Works for us. But more to your point, I’ve noticed that when friends/family refer to “5 star restaurants” these days, they’re almost always referring to 5 stars on yelp. To them, it goes without saying that they’re using yelp as the measuring tool.
- code_duck 7y agoMy experience is that the places that rate 4.5 or five stars on yelp deserve it. Every once in a while, I do discover one that I would consider excellent that has 3 1/2 or four.