Comments on: Ratings, Reviews and Relevance Criteria http://staging.blog.biakelsey.com/index.php/2005/04/01/Ratings-Reviews-and-Relevance-Criteria/ LOCAL MEDIA WATCH. The Nexus of All Things Local Mon, 01 Jun 2015 22:23:47 +0000 hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=4.2.39 By: Greg http://staging.blog.biakelsey.com/index.php/2005/04/01/Ratings-Reviews-and-Relevance-Criteria/comment-page-1/#comment-135 Fri, 01 Apr 2005 00:00:00 +0000 #comment-135 Agree, there's a danger. See: http://blog.searchenginewatch.com/blog/050401-100252

But the possibility of fraud isn't a reason to abandon the effort to aggregate it for consumers, who do find it valuable.

]]> By: D http://staging.blog.biakelsey.com/index.php/2005/04/01/Ratings-Reviews-and-Relevance-Criteria/comment-page-1/#comment-136 Fri, 01 Apr 2005 00:00:00 +0000 #comment-136 The low cost and “democratic” appearance of user-generated content is appealing. The possibility of “review/ratings fraud”, however, and the actual minority nature of user-generated content may hamper its potential. More than 50% of individual bogs are abandoned upon creation and the percentage of Internet users posting public content is in the low single digits. Those who do take the initiative to post are generally anonymous and often motivated by extreme positions.

]]>