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Yelp Walks Away From Google Deal, And Half A Billion Dollars

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Re: Yelp Walks Away From Google Deal, And Half A Billion Dollars

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Post by yardie »

dcurtis wrote: post #8
dzlobin wrote: post #4

While I agree with the other comments, I'm going to call this a dick move of the week. I understand that google wasn't buying yelp just for the sake of owning yelp, but Jesus Christ, yelp is a terrible terrible website for reviews of anything(I can only vouch for the NYC yelp). It's a pretty widely regarded fact here that yelp reviews do not count for shit, thus making the website a joke. They should have taken the m…

Did you really have to be that angry and extremist in your comment? Seriously, that was painful to read. I've used Yelp in NYC countless times. It's not that bad; you just have to filter through the reviews. It's like any social site.

Sounds way too meta to me. You have to review the reviews to actually find a useful review? If the site is being abused and the reviews need to be filtered than it's effective usefulness goes way down.

Re: Yelp Walks Away From Google Deal, And Half A Billion Dollars

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Post by dzlobin »

dcurtis wrote: post #8
dzlobin wrote: post #4

While I agree with the other comments, I'm going to call this a dick move of the week. I understand that google wasn't buying yelp just for the sake of owning yelp, but Jesus Christ, yelp is a terrible terrible website for reviews of anything(I can only vouch for the NYC yelp). It's a pretty widely regarded fact here that yelp reviews do not count for shit, thus making the website a joke. They should have taken the m…

Did you really have to be that angry and extremist in your comment? Seriously, that was painful to read. I've used Yelp in NYC countless times. It's not that bad; you just have to filter through the reviews. It's like any social site.

Fair enough, you're right. I was just blown away that yelp would pass up half a billion dollars.

Re: Yelp Walks Away From Google Deal, And Half A Billion Dollars

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Post by dzlobin »

zackattack wrote: post #6
dzlobin wrote: post #4

While I agree with the other comments, I'm going to call this a dick move of the week. I understand that google wasn't buying yelp just for the sake of owning yelp, but Jesus Christ, yelp is a terrible terrible website for reviews of anything(I can only vouch for the NYC yelp). It's a pretty widely regarded fact here that yelp reviews do not count for shit, thus making the website a joke. They should have taken the m…

What would you recommend in NYC instead of Yelp?

I second nymag. Also, while not a replacement for yelp, Per Se, keeping up with ny.eater.com will ensure you know of all the interesting/amazing places to eat/go out.

Re: Yelp Walks Away From Google Deal, And Half A Billion Dollars

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Post by metra »

presty wrote: post #31

is anyone else tired of seeing all the techcrunch submissions pasted in hn? this discussion has been had probably a year ago, but it seems like it's getting worse again.. seriously, why?

Why does it matter that it's from TC? What's important is the story. How is this the top comment? Does no one here give a shit about the actual story?

Re: Yelp Walks Away From Google Deal, And Half A Billion Dollars

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Post by ojbyrne »

_pius wrote: post #38
ojbyrne wrote: post #34

Earlier quoted context omitted.

I understand what you're saying, but you seem to have supported my argument. TMZ _is_ a better source.

My comment was meant to be agnostic to the merits of your argument. While we're talking about it, though, I think that this particular situation (reporting the Google-Yelp acquisition talks) is actually a bad example as well. TechCrunch reported that Google and Yelp were in talks for an acquisition. As far as I know, that is true and TechCrunch broke the story with original reporting. Then TechCrunch reported that Ye…

How many other times have techcrunch reported "company x in late stages of being acquired by Google/Yahoo/Microsoft" followed by "Talks for company x being acquired break off?" I'd suggest quite a few. I realize that this can actually happen, but if it happens often enough then the story becomes non-news.

Re: Yelp Walks Away From Google Deal, And Half A Billion Dollars

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Post by brown9-2 »

abijlani wrote: post #22

Yelp is not doing anything revolutionary. Before Yelp there was city search. Yelp came along and improved on what city search had done. Who is to say a better Yelp won't come along. I think they will regret walking away from this deal in the near future. For a very recent example look at Friendster. Although I hope I'm wrong.

Not to quibble but is what happened to Friendster really very recent? Feels like ages ago.

Re: Yelp Walks Away From Google Deal, And Half A Billion Dollars

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Post by newhouseb »

ramanujan wrote: post #36
rubyrescue wrote: post #26

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Yelp is, from my observations, anything but active. They haven't innovated in terms of UI or features in probably two years. Even geographies have been slow to develop - UK took a long time to appear. In fact, they're oddly static - the number of reviewed restaurants and stores has increased quite slowly for most cities, they haven't done a good job pushing into smaller markets. Admittedly this is my anecdotal observ…

What about the IPhone virtual reality app? I've found that very useful and quite innovative.

that was me. thanks :)
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