The following year, IgoUgo--which hosts user-generated reviews of travel destinations and hotels, photos and maps--was folded into Travelocity.
CareerBliss compiled a list of the 10 happiest jobs based on analysis from more than 65, 000 employee-generated reviews in 2012.
Add them all up and it turns out that as many as 30% of user-generated reviews are phony, by one tally.
CareerBliss compiled a list of the 10 unhappiest jobs based on analysis from more than 100, 400 employee-generated reviews between February 2011 and January 2012.
Yet to say that user-generated reviews on Amazon (and around the Web in general) are an untrustworthy measure of quality is a massive understatement.
Yelp, a popular Web site that hosts user-generated reviews of local businesses, hosted a party at a contemporary art center in San Francisco that was reminiscent of the '90s dot-com extravaganzas.
There are 25 million total user-generated reviews on Yelp.
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Expedia owns a social travel site called TripAdvisor, which is considered the premier site for user-generated travel reviews.
Six in 10 affluent Millennials read user-generated product reviews when shopping for luxury goods, 55% have learned about a product in a store, but preferred to purchased it online, and 18% recommend luxury brand purchases through social network sites, reports the Luxury Institute.
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Content marketing, social media marketing, content syndication and user-generated ratings and reviews are increasingly critical components of the marketing mix.
The growth of user generated content for reviews of everything from restaurants to electronics has created a new problem: making sense of all this data, and finding recommendations that are personally relevant.
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TripAdvisor Media Network (tripadvisor.com) gathers and publishes user-generated content such as hotel reviews that travelers use for research prior to making bookings, and generates revenue from advertising.
TripAdvisor gathers and publishes user-generated content such as hotels, restaurants and travel destination reviews that travelers use for research prior to making bookings.
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