Epinions
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Epinions.com was a general consumer review site established in 1999. Epinions was acquired in 2003 by DealTime, later Shopping.com, which was acquired by eBay in 2005. Epinions users could access paid product reviews; the company sold advertising on its site and shared the revenue with authors as an incentive for quality content.[1] Competition from sites that crowdsourced reviews for free led to years of financial decline. On 25 March 2014, all community features, and features for submitting and editing reviews, were disabled.[2] Subsequently, in May 2018, the site was fully closed down, and URLs in the epinions.com domain redirect to Shopping.com.
Type of site | Online marketplace |
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Available in | English |
Owner | eBay |
Founder(s) | Naval Ravikant, Nirav Tolia, Ramanathan Guha, Mike Speiser, Dion Lim |
URL | www |
Commercial | yes |
Launched | 1999; 25 years ago (1999) |
Current status | defunct in 2018 |