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Hey, will you give me a 10?

by Gigi Douban
Mar 22, 2016
Workers asking you to give them a positive rating are a modern-day annoyance
Why some businesses are eager for feedback
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A food critic's power in the Internet age

by Sam Harnett
Jan 6, 2015
One negative restaurant review in a newspaper can do more harm than you might think.
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Rotten Tomatoes turns its Tomatometer to television

by Kai Ryssdal
Sep 26, 2014
The film review website Rotten Tomatoes makes a big push for television reviews.
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Things have changed since Leonard Maltin started reviewing

by Kai Ryssdal
Sep 17, 2014
He has been in TV and movie reviewing business since the 1960s.
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Yelp's CEO on the end of the professional critic

by Kai Ryssdal
Aug 6, 2014
Yelp turned ten this year, while posting a profit for the first time.
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New York cracks down on false reviews

by Stacey Vanek Smith
Sep 23, 2013
New York's Attorney General has slapped 19 companies with fines for writing fake online reviews.
Employees of the online review site Yelp at the East Coast headquarters of the tech company in New York City. New York is cracking down on fake online reviews.
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Can you really trust online customer reviews?

by Molly Wood
Jan 30, 2012
Some of them, sure. But it can be hard to tell which ones.
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by John Moe
Jan 27, 2012
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Catherine, a game of love (and anxiety)

by Steve Henn
Aug 1, 2011
Catherine, a new video game by Atlus, sucks its players into a morally ambiguous world -- forcing them to think about relationships, and possibly...
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Can you spot the fake reviews?

by Steve Henn
Jul 28, 2011
It seems that sites like Yelp are getting less and less useful. Whenever I'm searching online for a new Indian restaurant or a hotel I'm hit wit...
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