{"id":765,"date":"2011-09-12T17:55:06","date_gmt":"2011-09-12T21:55:06","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/hic\/?p=765"},"modified":"2014-07-01T11:22:07","modified_gmt":"2014-07-01T15:22:07","slug":"groupon","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/hic\/2011\/09\/12\/groupon\/","title":{"rendered":"BU Research Underscores Impact of Groupon on Reputation"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.cs.bu.edu\/fac\/byers\" target=\"_blank\">John Byers<\/a>, Georgios Zervas, and their collaborator at Harvard University, Michael Mitzenmacher published a <a href=\"http:\/\/arxiv.org\/abs\/1109.1530\" target=\"_blank\">paperon arXiv.org<\/a> last week, which\u00a0showed statistically significant influence on reputation on Yelp for merchants who use\u00a0Groupon deals: Yelp ratings go down by 10% and\u00a0reviews from deal seekers are 20% more negative than average, but number of reviews surges significantly. The paper\u00a0got picked up\u00a0by the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.technologyreview.com\/blog\/arxiv\/27150\/\">MIT Technology Review blog <\/a>today,\u00a0which then caused a bit of a <a href=\"http:\/\/twitter.com\/#!\/search\/realtime\/groupon%20yelp\" target=\"_blank\">stir on Twitter<\/a>,\u00a0and got picked up in <a href=\"http:\/\/www.google.com\/search?q=byers+zervas#q=byers+zervas&amp;tbm=nws\">various news outlets<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>John Byers, Georgios Zervas, and their collaborator at Harvard University, Michael Mitzenmacher published a paperon arXiv.org last week, which\u00a0showed statistically significant influence on reputation on Yelp for merchants who use\u00a0Groupon deals: Yelp ratings go down by 10% and\u00a0reviews from deal seekers are 20% more negative than average, but number of reviews surges significantly. The paper\u00a0got [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4210,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[11716],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/hic\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/765"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/hic\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/hic\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/hic\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4210"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/hic\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=765"}],"version-history":[{"count":8,"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/hic\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/765\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3681,"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/hic\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/765\/revisions\/3681"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/hic\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=765"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/hic\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=765"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/hic\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=765"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}