Review aggregator
A review aggregator is a system that collects reviews of products and services (such as films, books, video games, software, hardware and cars). This system stores the reviews and uses them for purposes such as supporting a website where users can view the reviews, selling information to third parties about consumer tendencies, and creating databases for companies to learn about their actual and potential customers. The system enables users to easily compare many different reviews of the same work. Many of these systems calculate an approximate average assessment, usually based on assigning a numeric value to each review related to its degree of positive rating of the work.
Review aggregation sites have begun to have economic effects of the companies that create or manufacture items under review, especially in certain categories such as electronic games, which are expensive to purchase. Some companies have tied royalty payment rates and employee bonuses to aggregate scores, and stock prices have been seen to reflect ratings, as related to potential sales.[1][2]
List of review aggregators
Cars
Computers, electronics, and phones
Film and television
- Rotten Tomatoes
- Metacritic
- IMDb
- Review Gang
- TestFreaks
Games
Music
Books
Other categories
- Critics.gr (Greek multi-category site)
- Epinions
- FindTheBest
- TestFreaks
See also
Notes
- ↑ Nick Wingfield (2007-09-20). "High Scores Matter To Game Makers, Too". The Wall Street Journal. Retrieved 2008-02-15.
- ↑ Liam Lacey (2011-08-26). "The studios wake up to the power of Rotten Tomatoes". Globe_and_mail. Retrieved 2011-09-24.
References
- Needleman, Rafe (September 20, 2006). "Wize: reviews aggregator tallies user feedback". cnet.com. CBS Interactive. Retrieved 18 July 2010.
- Needleman, Rafe (October 19, 2006). "Still more reviews aggregators: Retrevo, DigitalAdvisor, and TheFind". cnet.com. CBS Interactive. Retrieved 18 July 2010.
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