Perplexity is licensing Yelp's data and integrating its maps, reviews, and other details in responses when users ask for restaurant recommendations
Emilia David / The Verge : X: @aravsrinivas and @carnage4life X: Aravind Srinivas / @aravsrinivas : the rebels are partnering against the establishment [image] Dare Obasanjo / @carnage4life : The une...
A look at Fake Review Watch on YouTube, run by Kay Dean, documenting fake reviews on Yelp, Google, and others, often tracing them back to Facebook Groups
Stephen Council / SFGATE : Tweets: @dannosphere , @mrmalty , and @sfgate . Forums: Hacker News Tweets: Dan Gentile / @dannosphere : “The online review business is the Wild West, and there's no sherif...
A researcher was able to breach 35+ companies, including Microsoft and Apple, using a software supply chain attack that leveraged an open source ecosystem flaw
here's how to protect against it Tweets: Pukhraj Singh / @rungrage : Being so out in the public domain, this is going to be a house of pain for software companies. On the policy side: this is why inte...
Yelp introduces Business Accused of Racist Behavior, a new alert to caution users about businesses that may be associated with overtly racist actions
and problematic Noah Manskar / New York Post : Yelp to label businesses accused of ‘racist behavior’ amid discrimination uptick Naga Pramod / Reclaim The Net : Yelp to allow users to mark businesses a...
Yelp introduces Business Accused of Racist Behavior, a new alert to caution users about businesses that may be associated with overtly racist actions
At Yelp, we value diversity, inclusion and belonging, both internally and on our platform, which means we have a zero tolerance policy to racism.
Late last year, Yelp's app quietly started routing restaurant customers' take out and delivery phone calls through Grubhub for tracking and marketing purposes
The phone numbers add tracking before connecting to a restaurant so that Grubhub can bill for a marketing fee.
For long-term viability, Yelp should focus on business models that avoid Google completely, instead of relying on traffic from search and antitrust regulation
Two of the more famous military sayings are “Generals are always preparing to fight the last war”, and “Never interrupt your enemy while he is making a mistake.”
Google is burying results from competitors like Yelp and TripAdvisor beneath its own in local search; Google says it's a bug
Google Claims It's A Bug, Yelp Says It's Intentional Chris Smith / TrustedReviews : Google says ‘bug’ to blame for burying rivals' local search results Tweets: Bill Gurley / @bgurley : Pretty Amazing ...
How to create a fake business with 19K Twitter followers, great Facebook and Yelp reviews, and an impressive online reputation in a few hours for less than $100
I created a fake business and bought it an amazing online reputation — If you live in the Bay Area and have looked … Tweets: @kevinroose Tweets: Kevin Roose / @kevinroose : Amazing @kashhill story a...