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   Tired of user reviews? There's now an API for professional reviews(tripexpert.com)

   4 points by aknicol 11y ago|0 comments
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   by aknicol 12y ago

   Looks cool!
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   by aknicol 12y ago

   Good point about Zagat. True, there's no granularity in the TripExpert Score. But at least you know that some factors aren't being weighted in an overwhelmingly disproportionate way like service (for example) is on TripAdvisor.
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   The Limits of User Reviews: A Study of TripAdvisor and Yelp(tripexpert.com)

   7 points by aknicol 12y ago|2 comments
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   by aknicol 12y ago

   I agree. We're probably going to delete it. Thanks for the feedback!
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   by aknicol 12y ago

   It is actually just the "standard" 5-star hotel rating scale. (I put standard in quotation marks because there isn't actually a worldwide common standard for what constitutes e.g. a 4-star hotel.) We've been wondering ab
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   by aknicol 12y ago

   Thanks for the positive feedback! Yes, we're building an API that will let other travel sites pull our scores, rankings and review extracts. If you or anyone you know might want to make use of it, tell them to get in touch! And, yes, w
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   by aknicol 12y ago

   Thanks for the feedback! Very glad to hear that you like the site so much. I agree with a lot of your suggestions, and some of them (like the filters automatically updating) we're going to be implementing soon. To answer your questions
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   by aknicol 12y ago

   Yeah, I agree; in my experience, high-end hotels often get unfairly rated on TA, in large part because they often get a lot of negative reviews from people who thought that they were too expensive or offered poor value for money. They often