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How To Make Sure Your Yelp Restaurant Reviews Aren't Completely Worthless

- 1 week ago @ consumerist.com: New York's Attorney General Eric T. Schneiderman offered up a doozy of an accomplishment yesterday, revealing that 19 companies had agreed to pay fines for writing fake online reviews for their businesses, and will be shelling out more than $350,000 in ...- 6 days ago @ eater.com: New York has cracked down…

Mystic Maggie October 2, 2013

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Yelp opens offices on California Avenue

- 2 days ago @ investors.com: Online reviews site Yelp (YELP) has opened an office in Palo Alto, Calif., an attempt to lure Silicon Valley programmers who might balk at a daily commute to the company's San Francisco headquarters. "Do you live in the Valley and tear up a bit at the ...

Mystic Maggie October 2, 2013

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$ave me: Spotting fake online consumer reviews

Relying on online consumer reviews to find a contractor or pick a blender may be dicey. In September, the New York attorney general fined 19 companies $350,000 for writing fake online reviews for businesses. The problem is even more pervasive than that—a new study from researchers at Harvard Business School and Boston University estimates that…

Mystic Maggie October 2, 2013