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tripexpert.com
Company blog · tripexpert.com/blogbusinessdata
tripexpert.com is the company blog at tripexpert.com, writing about business and data. Since 2014, 7 different Hacker News readers have linked it 8 times. No feed was found, so read it on the site itself.
Too few sampled comments (4) to say how often HN recommends it.?
Why HN links it
HN readers link TripExpert, which aggregates professional reviews of hotels, restaurants and things to do, as an alternative to crowd-sourced reviews such as TripAdvisor.
Summarised by Claude from a sample of 4 HN comments that link here. Each comment is marked recommending, critical or neutral (citing without judging); how this works.
What Hacker News says?
> That's why I find the aggregated professional movie reviews on Rotten Tomatoes more helpful than the crowd-sourced reviews on IMDB. That's exactly the analogy I thought of when I first saw TripExpert: https://www.tripexpert.com They aggregate professional reviews for hotels, restaurants, and things-to-do. The list, however, does skew heavily towards Michelin-star establishments, so it's not the site to find excell…
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on “How TripAdvisor Changed Travel”Submitted Show HN: TripExpert – Professional Hotel Reviews as a story · 47 points
HN discussionCool site. One nitpick: It looks like the automated scraper is bad at "de-duplicating" syndicated (or stolen?) content. Example: http://www.tripexpert.com/saint-paul/hotels/le-meridien-cham... Note the identical review text. That would immediately turn me off to the site as "obvious marketing spam" if it wasn't first posted here. Pretty neat though, I can see how this would be useful in companion with some of the us…
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on “Show HN: TripExpert – Professional Hotel Reviews”Submitted The Limits of User Reviews: A Study of TripAdvisor and Yelp as a story · 7 points
HN discussionI think they give a pretty good answer to this question in their 'about' section: http://www.tripexpert.com/about 1) up to 40% of user hotel reviews are fake, 2) users rarely visit more than 1 hotel per city so have no basis for comparison, whereas experts (presumably) visit multiple hotels in each city, 3) users tend to post reviews after having a 'marginal experience' that isn't really all that applicable to other…
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on “Show HN: TripExpert – Professional Hotel Reviews”Submitted Tired of user reviews? There's now an API for professional reviews as a story · 4 points
HN discussionAlmost half of 1-star reviews of luxury hotels complain about service... Of course, hotels should be penalized for stuffy, unpleasant, and brusque service. But by how much? Is service really more important than the comfort of the rooms or the convenience of the location? Such an interesting point, especially paired with the additional survey point (24% of people care about it as their #1 reason). It is one of the th…
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on “The Limits of User Reviews: A Study of TripAdvisor and Yelp”Submitted Lessons Learned in Collecting 1.2M Photos as a story · 3 points
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