Yelp - Real Reviews By Real People
Yelp is the fun and easy way to find, review and talk about whats great and not so great in your world. You already know that asking friends is the best way to find restaurants, dentists, hairstylists, and anything local. Yelp makes it fast and easy by collecting and organizing your friends recommendations in one convenient place.
Yelp is a local reviews website covering almost 40 states. Users write and read reviews about anything from their favorite wall restaurant to the worst downtown club. Additionally Yelp offers social networking features: the ability to add friends, groups, events, talk in forums or message contacts. The idea behind this is that users will trust their friend’s reviews more than others.
Yelp provides online local search capabilities for its visitors. A typical search includes what the user is seeking and the location from which the search is to be performed, entered as a specific address, neighborhood, city state combination, or zip code. Each business listing result contains a 5 point rating, reviews from other site visitors, and details such as the business address, hours, accessibility, and parking.
Strong peer feedback mechanisms and the featured placement of popular reviews on the site and in local newsletters help motivate contributors. Yelp also applies a “First to Review” reward system to create a competition among contributing members, further motivating the creation of reviews and adding to the site’s business coverage. Over 10.6 million people access the Yelp web site each month, putting it in the top 100 of U.S. Internet web sites.
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There is a lot of activities happening in the mobile VAS market. Even Google has been experimenting its local voice based search engine services.
