Yelp’s Six-Year Conflict with Google
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Yelp’s Six-Year Conflict with Google
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#2I'm under the impression that only EU slaps antitrust charges lately.
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#3I'm under the impression that only EU slaps antitrust charges lately.
Which is a shame. I doubt any real antitrust cases will be brought here in the US for the next 4 years.
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#4Unrelated but related, what is it like to work at Yelp?
I was recently contacted by them for a position but it didn't inspire confidence. The mention of a "shoestring operation" in this article is making me believe I made the right choice.
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#5"Jeremy Stoppelman @jeremys
Wow Google, congrats on a new low. Consumer searches for Yelp gets "reviews" which are Google Ads."
hah, that's fresh coming from an online racketeering company.
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#6I'm under the impression that only EU slaps antitrust charges lately.
Which is a shame. I doubt any real antitrust cases will be brought here in the US for the next 4 years.
Honestly, I'd say longer than that. The Democrats have very little impetus to do them either, given their corporate funding record.
It's been about 30 years since the Democrats gave up on the working classes to cater to "Cause of the Week", "Big Media", and associated areas. Even Obama, with the ACA, set it up that we're required to pay for-profit companies for insurance. He even had a super-majority to enable Medicare for All... but didn't.
Republicans claim they're for the "Common Working Man", but time and again we see policies that ascribe to 'Socialism for the Rich, and Capitalism for the Poor'. And that's not discussing Trump, who has been criticized by both US parties for his actions. (I'm focusing on R-Congress and state governors.)
Something's got to give, and I don't see this going well at all. The fact that regulators and congress refuse to do anything is just a symptom.
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#7Unrelated but related, what is it like to work at Yelp? I was recently contacted by them for a position but it didn't inspire confidence. The mention of a "shoestring operation" in this article is making me believe I made the right choice.
It depends on position. They treat CSRs like absolute shit -- see Talia Jane. Given a choice, I'd prefer not to work for companies that treat any employee like that.
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#8Interestingly, the other firms cited in the article as taking up the Google fight are Microsoft and Oracle, which both have had their antitrust issues.
This definitely looks like a case of "well, we got in trouble for this, so they should get their come-upings too!".
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#9"Mr. Stoppelman feels he has no choice. Like a lot of small internet companies, Yelp lives in a world where one company, Google, accounts for an outsize share of its business, and could destroy it at any time."
That sums it up for Yelp and many others, myself included. Combine that reality with the black box that Google is, in many ways, and you have an inaccessible behemoth who's decisions decide the fate of many.
Googles combination of Search, Browser, and Advertising dominance gives it a unique position of power. Then there are secondary markets like Android that just buttress their position.
I see the fight raging about net neutrality and keep thinking that Google neutrality is just as important. It affects people in even more meaningful ways, determining where they go and what they see on the Internet.
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#10Unrelated but related, what is it like to work at Yelp? I was recently contacted by them for a position but it didn't inspire confidence. The mention of a "shoestring operation" in this article is making me believe I made the right choice.
That was only in reference to their lobbying "office" in washington DC (no formal office, just a seat in a coworking place).