A friend and I were talking the other day about the travel reviews on sites like Travelocity and Orbitz.
It seems that these sites "review" the user reviews before they are posted. That is logical, but here is the question: "Do legitimate bad reviews get scrapped because of advertisers?"
Here's the deal: we both work in advertising and know that certain hotel chains pay big bucks to get recommended first (at the top of the results lists) on these travel sites.
Our conversation started because we were talking about how when we submit good reviews on hotels, they are posted almost immediately, but when we submit bad reviews they are rarely posted at all.
If a high-end hotel is paying 10% commission (or whatever) to these travel sites, do you think they are going to let the sites post bad reviews right next the "Book Now" button? Do you ever wonder if these sites conveniently "leave out" reviews that are negative to their advertisers?
Am I being paranoid or is this logical?
2006-07-03
18:13:23
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