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Good Or Bad, The Web Review World is . . . Weird

How easy is it to “game the system” on review sites like Yelp? To find out, just have the President of the United States visit you and give him a bear hug.

This story has been all over the news, so aside from liking the surprised look on President Obama’s face in some of the other pictures of this event, (and those aren’t even the one I’ve included here . . . copyright, copyright, copyright . . . ) I wouldn’t have mentioned this. Except last night, I couldn’t order take-out from a local restaurant, and it got me thinking.

Got Bread? Not On Take-Out. Beyoglu NYC Is Like The Internet

Beyoglu On New York City's Upper East Side

Hanging out on Manhattan’s Upper East Side, I get to experience a lot of overpriced restaurants serving food that isn’t very good. Beyoglu is not one of those restaurants.

Beyoglu, a Mediterranean cafe and restaurant on Third Avenue, serves pretty darned good food at a great price. Aside from the smell and noise from passing cars and everyday New York City street activity, sharing a hummus and a few grilled shrimp outdoors during the summer at Beyoglu is a blast; it’s truly one of my favorites restaurants.

Half-Baked Reviews and The Decline of Journalism

galaxy nexus screenshot screen shot

Some days, I wish I was a journalist. Or still a journalist. Or something that would make me feel as though I was contributing to a vocation that I’m starting to get really worried about.

The aftermath of the problems I had last week with Verizon Wireless Customer Service was that I replaced my Droid with a shiny new Galaxy Nexus, albeit with some more customer service stupidity thrown in. And because there’s still a big piece of computer geek floating around inside me (and I had stuff to transfer from my Droid to the Galaxy Nexus SmartPhone), I spent some time playing over the weekend.

A New Spin on Reviews and Ratings (Perception and Reality)

After eating at Penelope NYC earlier this year, I wrote a piece about the flaws in on-line reviews at site like Yelp.

And those flaws in most review systems are real; over time, almost every restaurant ends up with three or three-and-a-half stars on a scale of one to five, rendering the information useless. Or worse, fake reviews get posted, either very low by competitors or people with some other ax to grind, or very high by friends helping restaurants and other businesses game the system.





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