Re:A 1-star, unfiltered user review of Yelp
by pkteison on Wednesday March 07, 2012 @10:34PM
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No friends. You had 2 'specials' and a tip. I'm sure a lot of people check in there just due to volume, but volume strikes me as a questionable signal for an 'explore' feature - if everyone already knows it, I probably already know it too. I understand it's a tough problem, but it just looked like an unmarked paid result.
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Re:A 1-star, unfiltered user review of Yelp
by jorgeortiz85 on Thursday March 08, 2012 @11:24AM
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As you suspect, raw volume is a poor signal. We take a lot of other things into account: repeat visits, proportion of visitors that left a tip, the "sentiment" of the tips, etc.