Tag: Online Reviews

Yelp Matches Users’ Photos With Their Reviews, Displays Them Together
Yelp announced today that it will now display user-uploaded photos in-line with review text on business reviews. This will put imagery more directly in users' faces, obviously....
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Yelp: Consumers, On Average, Can Rely On Our Content
At the LeWeb conference in London this week, Yelp CEO Jeremy Stoppelman took to the stage to discuss his business with host Loic Le Meur. Inevitably, the topic of fake reviews and...
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Google Updates Spam Detection For Reviews, Warns SEOs
Google announced that it has made some improvements to its spam detection algorithms that increased the number of reviews that appear on some Google+ Local pages. Do yo...
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Yelp Earnings: Net Revenue Up 65% Year-Over-Year
Yelp released its Q4 and full-year 2012 earnings report on Wednesday after market close. The company posted net revenue of $41.2 million for the quarter, a 65% year-over-year incre...
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Yelp Tops 100 Million Uniques For First Time
Yelp announced today that it surpassed 100 million unique vistors on its site in January, marking the first time in Yelp history it has had that many uniques in a month. "That’...
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Google Is Letting Anonymous Users Review Businesses
Online reviews are a hot button issue right now, particularly as one case involving Yelp reviews has attracted some media attention. You can read about that...
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Yelp Reviews Ruled Free Speech Until Proven Defamatory. Right Call?
Last month, in a case of free speech vs. business reputation, a Virginia...
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Court Orders Yelp User To Change Review. Slippery Slope?
This week, a Virginia judge ordered a Yelp user to change a negative review. Before we get into the specifics, just think about that for a second. Do you use Yelp (or any other ser...
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Dumbest Online Recipe Receives the Most Smartass Comments Ever
Let's be honest: online recipes are a minefield. Sure, the user ratings system employed by most online recipe sites help bring the cream to the top and push the crap to the bottom...
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Unselfish Reasons for Writing Online Reviews [Infographic]
We all like to share our experiences and writing an online review is one of the most effective and efficient ways to do it. I love online reviews, and judging by the amount availab...
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Peer Reviews Trump Advertising [Infographic]
It started out with larger purchases, I would go online and check to see what other people had to say. If the reviews were mixed, I would give it a try, but if they were overwhelmi...
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RateBeer Announces Best Beers of 2012, Over 3.5 Million Reviews
Online beer mecca RateBeer has just announced their Best of 2012 Awards, and a Belgian Quadrupel takes the blue r...
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Mobile Devices Playing Larger Role For Holiday Shopping
Nearly one-third of Americans say while they are at a store looking at product, they tried to find a better deal on their mobile device, according to a new report from GfK Roper...
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Social Media Users Aim To Influence Others
Nearly two-thirds (64%) of online Americans use social media, and the majority (84%) of social media users reveal information about themselves via social platforms, according to...
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Yelp To Display Filtered Reviews
Local business review site Yelp said today it is taking steps to increase transparency about how user reviews are presented to consumers. The move comes amid at l...
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