User-generated travel guides are worthless??

The Internet is awash with travel Web sites featuring "user-generated" comments: People post their I-stayed-at-such-and-such-a-hotel-and-here's-what-I-thought-of-it recollections, and the rest of us are supposed to adjust our vacation decisions accordingly.

Time was when only a couple of Web sites -- like TripAdvisor.com and Lonely Planet's Thorn Tree (thorntree.lonelyplanet.com) --featured such homely advice by amateur pundits. Today, a growing array of services -- www.igougo.com, www.tripmates.com, www.gusto.com, www.tripconnect.com, Britain's wayn.com and many others -- consist of nothing but.

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