All review sites (Yelp, IMDb, Amazon, etc) suffer from the same flaw: they don’t take taste into account. If someone rates everything 5 stars, their 5-star review shouldn’t mean much. The right question to answer is: “what do people with discerning taste think of this place?”
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This is exactly what
@netflix does. They recommend things based on people who have similar interests to you. The problem is that you need to collect info from every user... It would help Yelp get more reviews if they said "review places to get better reviews for yourself"
Netflix’s system is awful. If you watch a great bank heist movie, they will suggest an array of awful bank heist movies. When it comes to movies, most people care more about objective quality than they do about genre.
