Those will account for between 10% and 15% of all online reviews by 2014, estimates Gartner.
According to Panagiotis Ipeirotis, associate professor at New York University, the same perception applies to online reviews.
Actually, an organization called the Massachusetts Health Quality Partners (MHQP) has already been publishing online reviews of physicians since 2006.
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Consumers are relying on social networks, online reviews, video demonstrations, mobile applications, and other technologies to inform a purchase decision.
Sometime last year, people began sharing tongue-in-cheek online reviews of the banana-shaped piece of yellow plastic with their Facebook friends.
The wealth of online reviews has reignited the idea that the customer's feedback is not only important, but critical to success.
When picking a servicer, ask for references, read online reviews, and ask exactly what you get for the quoted price, says Ms. Edvalson.
The context I bring this up comes in the form of online reviews and the writing thereof and the honesty, or lack thereof, within.
But we live in an age of search engines and online reviews that makes your online reputation as important as your product or in-store experience.
Unfortunately, it had yet to open for the day, so I used the software to locate and read online reviews about another Mexican place down the road.
The publisher is sending Mr. Howey on an 11-city tour, and has planned a bold six-figure marketing campaign that will capitalize on the film news and online reviews.
They're all Millar, claims Neville, who has accused his rival of sock puppeting - when authors take on pseudonyms to laud their own books in online reviews or to do down the opposition.
What happened with online reviews and recommendations?
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In addition to having a very detailed and rated profile of myself on the site, I actively ask my clients to provide online reviews, and I use the site for advertising in order to reach prospective clients across Orange County.
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Separating from the pack is increasingly important for travel sites now, as more and more travelers rely on them: According to 2012 travel-consumer statistics compiled by Funsherpa, 87% of travelers used the Internet for a bulk of their trip planning, whether it was to research an upcoming vacation, read online reviews or source initial ideas about where to travel.
Precisely because they do not trust sellers or advertising much, they devour online customer reviews of the sort made popular by eBay and Amazon.
But the online consumer reviews site lost 8 cents a share in the quarter, wider than the Street consensus estimated loss of 4 cents a share.
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According to BCG, over 40% of Chinese online shoppers read and post product reviews online, making them twice as likely as American online shoppers to do so and four times as likely as Indians.
Online peer reviews are notoriously unreliable, and although Amazon and other sites have made significant efforts to eliminate biased or untrustworthy reviews, it is still difficult to judge the quality of a book from consumer reviews alone.
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Working with big firms, Castlight assembles data from past transactions so that employees can shop for doctors online and read reviews posted by patients.
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Community members are incentivized to post reviews online and often do.
In seeking opinions to guide their choices in consumer electronics, for example, shoppers are overwhelmingly turning to online forums for reviews from fellow consumers and relying less on the opinions of editorial critics.
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Audiences had already been on the bandwagon, taking phone pics from their seats and posting reviews online before the models were off the runway, but designers are figuring out how to use all the instant feedback to their advantage.
With over 100 million reviews and opinions, TripAdvisor is a leading online platform for travel-related reviews that helps its users make more informed travel decisions.
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Friends made recommendations and I looked them up online to check for reviews.
Following its spin-off from online travel agency Expedia in December 2011, TripAdvisor, a leading online platform for travel reviews continues to witness rapid top line growth every quarter.
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The initial wave of negative reviews with online issues that have plagued many gamers notwithstanding, Wedbush Morgan Securities game analyst Michael Pachter believes the long-term potential for Diablo III remains strong.
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