[uf-discuss] [hReview] Best way to find book reviews

[me at sergiosantos.info]

> me at sergiosantos.info wrote:
>> I've been thinking about creating an aggregator of book reviews, based
>> on
>> the hReview format. People just needed to drop their website link and it
>> would ping it regularly for new reviews. But since the microformat has a
>> field 'type' where the best description for a book e product, the parser
>> could also get several reviews non-related with books. On the hReview
>> FAQ
>> it advises to use to book rel='tag' to specify more the type of the
>> review, this doesn't seem to be a common practice in the Examples in the
>> wild. So I ask you what would be the best way to find the book reviews.
>> Asking for everyone to put the book tag and probably losing hundreds of
>> reviews already out there without it? Run the title of the review
>> against
>> the Amazon database?
>>
>> Thanks in advance for any feedback.
>>
>>
>> Sérgio Santos
>> www.sergiosantos.info
>>
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>
> Hi Sérgio,
>
> Our site LouderVoice is a general hreview aggregator and we took the
> basic approach of using tags. We have both search
> (http://www.loudervoice.com/search?q=book) and tags
> (http://www.loudervoice.com/tags/book), but even there you can see a big
> disparity between the search count and the tag count, so I understand
> your concerns. Have you looked at that Amazon->hreview tool? I can't
> find the URL right now.
>
> Conor
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Just found the tool you mentioned:
http://www.microform.at/amazon2hreview/. Nice one.

It's a good idea to use the Amazon reviews, it's one of the biggest
reviews database. But I would prefer to not use a centralized resource, an
agregate directly from blogs and other personal websites. Just like the
good platform you have on LouderVoice.

Sérgio Santos
www.sergiosantos.info