Comment on Ask HN: Glassdoor is unbelievably bad, why no one disrupting it?Comments−dotcoma3y(how) do they make money ?−dexwiz3yBy extorting companies to improve their score by removing bad reviews or promoting good ones.−cheikhcheikhOP3ythey list a bunch of stuff in thei paid features https://www.glassdoor.com/employers/features-and-pricing/looks like you pay for advertisements of jobs, some more marketing features and some other crap−dotcoma3yIt doesn't sound like a great business to me, not to mention the risk someone else rightly mentioned here of being taken to court by companies.−TillE3yIt is extraordinarily difficult to win any kind of defamation lawsuit in the US. The bar is really high.I certainly wouldn't try to run a business like that anywhere else in the world, but in America they're probably fine, with just some basic screening.
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(how) do they make money ?
By extorting companies to improve their score by removing bad reviews or promoting good ones.
they list a bunch of stuff in thei paid features https://www.glassdoor.com/employers/features-and-pricing/
looks like you pay for advertisements of jobs, some more marketing features and some other crap
It doesn't sound like a great business to me, not to mention the risk someone else rightly mentioned here of being taken to court by companies.
It is extraordinarily difficult to win any kind of defamation lawsuit in the US. The bar is really high.
I certainly wouldn't try to run a business like that anywhere else in the world, but in America they're probably fine, with just some basic screening.