Yelp.com Review Summary
If you like to review products and services, consider Yelp.com. This online service features reviews of many different products, but it sticks primarily to local services and reviewers like Yelp.com for its usefulness as a place to find information on local places of interest and for the fact that ,new users can focus on a specific part of the country when they first log on. Yelp.com offers “Intelligent, Informative Reviews” and it’s the “Perfect Web Site if You’re Looking for Some Local Reviews”. Yelp.com does have a few areas in which it could improve, like the fact that it allows companies being reviewed to comment on their own reviews and the decline over the years into a site that lacks intelligent reviews. Add everything up and you have an average Review Web Site that has some good points and some bad points.
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Yelp.com Comparison
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Yelp.com is a website where you can read and write reviews on restaurants, shopping and other services in your own town like favorite salon, spa, dog groomer, etc. You also have the option of reviewing places/services in other cities.
One of the best features about Yelp.com is the reviews are true,...
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I used to like yelp, but I'm not sure I really place trust in their reviews anymore. They play games with their content (and not fun, good kinds of games). They allow companies being reviewed to comment on their reviews, denigrating the opinions of their customers, and they let companies pay to determine...
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Yelp.com Ratings and Reviews
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Footnote added to the top: Another thing I noticed about Yelp.com, one must be logged on to give a thumbs up or down on a review. On Viewpoints...anyone (including the writer) can give a review the thumbs up or down; and it counts towards total "useful" votes. This is just plain wrong.
The first thing I noticed about Yelp.com is that it is localized. You write and read reviews from your part of the country and/or city. This gives it more home-town atmosphere. I'm guessing you can browse other cities. I'm still new to it.
The second thing I noticed about Yelp.com; I saw NO QUICK REVIEWS!...
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I came across Yelp when I was looking for a site that was better than Epinions and I saw that people are respectful of you on Yelp. It's gotten to the point that many review sites seem to gain an audience of immature adults many who are married or in relationships with children acting immature and trashing people's reviews even going as far as emailing them threatening messages and other ridiculous high school level behavior.
I ended up finding a really good washer and dryer repairman named Robert aka "The Fix It Guy" who is highly rated on Yelp for his professionalism and prompt service. If anyone's...
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As a participant on Yelp, I frequently write and read other people's review. Although everyone's taste is different, Yelp users are among the best I have seen. The user reviews tend to be very honest and very helpful. This is definitely a website worth visiting!
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I am a new business owner. We have been telling our clients to use yelp.com to post reviews on what they thought of our business. We had up to 12 reviews, all positive and now we are down to 6. I contacted yelp and they said they have an automated program that removes reviews that it feels are not legit, but we could still find the reviews by looking up the user. Well that is easier said then done because we didn't write down their user names because we didn't know that yelp would be taken away their reviews. Most people that post don not use their real names. Other businesses have complained...
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I rely on Yelp.com for most of my "what to do in (name of city)" and "what bars are located in (name of city)" type of questions.
I get a great list of anything available including addresses, phone numbers, type of dress, cost if any..etc. There are also link to the actual website of anything you're interested in.
Next time you're looking for something to do, or want to plan a trip itinerary, use Yelp.com!
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The reviews are quirky, creative, and you can tell these people really put their heart... review »
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Yelp is a despicable place to review. I have rarely seen any biz accurately reviewed on yelp, and worse, I own one that has horrible reviews on yelp. The worse part about it - is no matter how many times I prove some of the horrible reviews are lies, yelp just doesn't care. One of the terrible reviews about my biz on yelp claims we are on the 4th floor. We are not. We are on the 1st. One of the negative reviews says we do not have a street viewing property. Another lie. Yelp is a place where ex-disgruntled employees can try and ruin their former employer also by writing false info...
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