New Feature Allows RateItAll.com Members to Rate and Review Anything

Online ratings community RateItAll.com announces a new feature that allows any user to 1) create new site listings; 2) rate and review that listing in real time.

San Francisco, CA (PRWEB) June 10, 2005

Online ratings community RateItAll, Inc. (http://www.rateitall.com) today announced a new feature that allows RateItAll users to rate and review anything – any product, person, destination, local merchant, etc. – whether or not it is already listed on the site.

This feature allows RateItAll users to add their own listing to any section of RateItAll, and to write a rating and review of that listing in real time. Ratings and reviews of previously unlisted items post live on RateItAll.com upon approval of the new item submission – usually within 24 hours.

For example, a RateItAll user who is browsing RateItAll’s Beer section may wish to leave a review about an obscure Belgian Ale not currently listed on RateItAll. Using the new item submission tool, that user can create a listing for that beer, and post a rating and review in real time.

“We think we’ve removed an important obstacle to sharing your opinion,” says RateItAll President Lawrence Coburn. “RateItAll reviewers are no longer limited by the scope of what our editors have been able to publish – our reviewers are now our editors.”

RateItAll users who add a new listing to the site receive prominent accreditation for that listing, with a hyperlink that points to their profile page where other reviewers can learn about their ratings history, interests, and areas of expertise.

“We’ve admired self publishing communities like Wikipedia.org for a while,” says Coburn. "This feature moves us in that direction, and should allow our coverage to expand to include more obscure subject matter."

This feature is also available on RateItAll’s local directory offering, RateLocal.com. RateLocal users can now create their own local merchant listings, and rate and review any local merchant in 52 US metropolitan areas.

About RateItAll

Founded in 1999, RateItAll’s mission is to enable the structured exchange of the world’s opinions. With more than 1.5 million ratings across thousands of topics, RateItAll is one of the world’s largest and most diverse collections of consumer-driven opinions, ratings, and reviews. RateItAll also assists clients such as Kraft Foods and PriceGrabber, Inc. with their consumer review offerings.

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