Re:Real People. Real Reviews. Real Extortion Scheme?
by evanrmurphy on Friday February 26, 2010 @03:41PM
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If Yelp is a sort of monopoly, then users' standards for its usefulness is a low bar, since they'll be comparing it to nothing rather than to a better alternative. (And before users have reason to suspect any foul play at Yelp - as they now do - it's more difficult for better alternatives to gain users' attention.)
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Re:Real People. Real Reviews. Real Extortion Scheme?
by lukev on Friday February 26, 2010 @04:08PM
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I'm not sure there's room for a lot of competition for end users in a service like Yelp. "Review accuracy" isn't a metric that users are capable of measuring with any effectiveness - it's so subjective anyway. The only thing that will put one service above another is how many businesses have been reviewed, and Yelp has a huge head start there.