How do you find vendors to provide the services you need? The internet may come to mind as an option. After all, doesn’t the internet exist precisely to make these kinds of things easier? Search engines help you reach exactly the right people for what you need and the online world offers you a far wider range of vendors to choose from than you’d get anywhere else. So you can rely on the internet, right?

Well, no — not really. Not when it comes to hiring service providers at least.

In fact, the internet is such a poor way to search for vendors that most people don’t even try to go online anymore. Someone who needs a babysitter, a gardener or a mechanic is far more likely to rely on word of mouth references than to go digging around online. That’s because there are lots of issues with the online market.

The options that are available to you are dispersed across dozens if not hundreds of websites rather than being conveniently gathered in one place and filtering through them using a search engine isn’t very effective; websites often don’t address your specific needs, forcing you to consult with multiple sources, which may confuse you more than help you; and the vendors you find separately online have little incentive to offer competitive pricing. Despite all these downfalls, trust is the biggest problem people face online.

The era of fake news has taught us at least one important thing: There’s very little online anyone can be certain is true. For the services industry, this problem is most evident in the prevalence of reviews that are either fake or have been tampered with in some other way.

Many businesses today spend significant amounts of capital manipulating reviews of their services, making sure they remain positive but realistic. Many post fake positive reviews of themselves and fake negative reviews of the competition to push down their ratings.

Undesirable reviews can often be deleted for a fee or edited after they’ve been posted. And even 100% honest reviews online are skewed since angry customers with a complaint are far more likely to leave reviews that all those who were happy with the services they received.

With YINC, that’s all about to change. YINC puts You IN Control when it comes to searching for and hiring vendors online. The YINC platform brings services providers from every field to one place and an advanced algorithm even filters them for you, selecting a number of the best vendors based on location, previous reviews and other performance factors, and allows them to bid for your business, incentivizing competitive pricing.

YINC also solves the problem of untrustworthy reviews. First, YINC makes reviews unalterable in any way shape or form by linking each one to a transaction that’s stored on the blockchain. Not even YINC can change the content of reviews or have them deleted. That’s the power of blockchain. Second, YINC’s system rules out the possibility of fake reviews. Reviews can only be posted on YINC when a transaction has been completed. Since vendors aren’t allowed to hire themselves through YINC, reviews can only come from real, honest customers.

YINC has even gone one step further to create a system of reviews that’s actually valuable to consumers. They’ve done that by rewarding users who leave reviews. When you leave a review on YINC, you get rewarded with YINC tokens, which can then be used to cover at least part of the cost of your next transaction on the site or even redeemed for cash. That means everyone should be posting reviews, giving a more honest overview of the quality of work provided by a vendor.

Like any revolutionary technology, it has taken time to perfect the internet and bring its capabilities to their full potential. When it comes to finding and hiring services online, YINC is taking that final step and finally giving you what you deserve: simplicity and plain honesty.