TripAdvisor
TripAdvisor® is the world’s largest travel site, enabling travelers to plan and have the perfect trip. TripAdvisor offers trusted advice from real travelers and a wide variety of travel choices and planning features with seamless links to booking tools. TripAdvisor branded sites make up the largest travel community in the world, with more than 60 million unique monthly visitors*, 44 million marketable members, and over 100 million reviews and opinions. The sites operate in 30 countries worldwide, including China under daodao.com. TripAdvisor also includes TripAdvisor for Business, a dedicated division that provides the tourism industry access to TripAdvisor’s millions of monthly visitors.
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Travelocity
We here at Travelocity believe that you deserve great travel experiences. That’s why we created our own Travelocity Customer Bill of Rights and realigned our entire organization so that our products, policies and employees protect them. It’s on the foundation of this work, strengthened by our commitment to continually get better at what we do, that we offer the Travelocity Guarantee.
The Travelocity Guarantee is our seal on your traveler rights, a promise to our customers that we’ll do our utmost to take care of you – that when you book with Travelocity, ‘you’ll never roam alone.’ This promise extends to your entire trip experience; it even includes a low price guarantee to assure that you’re getting a great deal for the travel you want.
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Google Places
The primary role of Google+ is to be a powerful social media website, but it’s also integrated into Google Maps and other Google services that rely on crowd-sourcing to get reviews. The reviews on Google+ can heavily affect a business.
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Amazon
With a mission “to be Earth’s most customer-centric company, where customers can find and discover anything they might want to buy online, and endeavors to offer its customers the lowest possible prices,” Amazon.com and other sellers offer millions of unique new, refurbished, and used items in categories such as books; movies; music & games; digital downloads; electronics & computers; home & garden; toys; kids & baby; grocery; apparel; shoes & jewelry; health & beauty; sports & outdoor; and tools, auto & industrial.
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Yelp.com
Yelp was founded in 2004 to help people find great local businesses like dentists, hair stylists and mechanics. It had an average of approximately 86 million monthly unique visitors in Q4 2012. Yelpers have written over 36 million local reviews. In addition to reviews, you can use Yelp to find events, lists and to talk with other Yelpers. Every business owner (or manager) can setup a free account to post photos and message her customers. Yelp makes money by selling ads to local businesses – you’ll see these clearly labeled “Yelp Ads” around the site. Yelp has an automated filter that suppresses a small portion of reviews – it targets those suspicious ones you see on other sites. You can access Yelp via iPhone, Android, BlackBerry, and more – see the full list of mobile apps here.
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