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This is quite an interesting read. Looks like a lot more business owners will realize the importance of negative reviews, start putting fake negative reviews on
by noor420 18y ago
This is quite an interesting read. Looks like a lot more business owners will realize the importance of negative reviews, start putting fake negative reviews on rival businesses and flood their own yelp page with good comments.
What will be bad for yelp down the road if that happens?
maybe an online guide of business reviews with no credibility and guininity.
- riklomas 18y agoI helped develop a Yelp-style site for the UK market, and you'd be surprised how often businesses review themselves and review their rivals negatively, it's a pretty common practice. We tried to curb this by letting businesses reply to reviews and control their listing details, but they still come along and blatently review themselves!
- Goladus 18y agoThe key to using yelp isn't to just read the first few reviews, but to find reviewers that either match your tastes, or have observations that appear to be particularly trustworthy. That can sometimes be determined by reading the user profiles and other reviews. I wouldn't recommend anyone just reading every review on yelp. You have to come up with some sort of filter.