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Former MunchOnMe Team Launches Caviar, A Curated Seamless

35 pointsby jwang815over 12 years ago

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fruchtoseover 12 years ago
&#62; With its focus on curation, Caviar limits its inventory to restaurants that have four stars or higher on Yelp.<p>Frankly, I believe that this is a security risk for companies that want to integrate with Caviar. Since this criteria is outside the control of Caviar, it is possible to game the system.<p>Here's a scenario: Alice opens a new swanky restaurant. A few hipsters come by and give Alice's restaurant a 4-star average on Yelp. Alice asks Caviar if she can integrate with them. Meanwhile, Bob has another restaurant that competes with Alice's. Realizing that his business is vulnerable, he buys a few negative reviews of Alice's restaurant on Yelp. Because she had few ratings to begin with, and because Yelp believes the reviews to be real, her rating drops to 3 stars. Now Caviar won't let Alice use their service.<p>How will Caviar prevent this scenario from happening? Why not act like Steve Jobs and say, "This restaurant can use our service because I said so?"
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