Yelp tried to strong-arm us
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Yelp tried to strong-arm us
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#2Interestingly, the Reddit comments seem to mention Google as a better alternative.
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#3Interestingly, the Reddit comments seem to mention Google as a better alternative.
Is Google automated in this space, like most everything else Google does, or does it have actual people to make the same threats that Yelp reportedly does?
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#4Interestingly, the Reddit comments seem to mention Google as a better alternative.
Google has plenty of issues on the consumer side, but from my experiences and everything i've heard they treat their advertisers well. At the very least, they're not an outright protection racket.
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#5It's a sad but predictable pattern you see from everyone from the Better Business Bureau to more recent companies.
Being established isn't enough, eventually they have to push on those whose information / access they provide.
Personally I gave up on Yelp as years ago I could see so many reviews for places by people who clearly had no clue what that place even was. Such as if you go to a Neapolitan pizza place... you really shouldn't complain that the pizza is "just thin crust". Or the always great "this place isn't as good as X" where X is a place that costs 3x as much....
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#6This sounds like a scam call. Did the user verify that the agent was in fact in any way associated with yelp, and not just someone trying to blackmail a business owner? As a domain owner, you get these scammy SEO agents pretending to be affiliated with google all the time.
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#7Nothing about this seems credible or interesting enough to be posted here. These stories emerge every so often, and they rarely seem to exist beyond Reddit. I’d be interested in this if it could be verified, but as it is this is internet rumor momgering.
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#8Interestingly, the Reddit comments seem to mention Google as a better alternative.
I found Google restaurant reviews in NYC to be generally very inflated. You'd think couple hundred reviews averaging out to be 4.6+ would mean pretty good experience, but I've learned to dial back my expectation.
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#9Nothing about this seems credible or interesting enough to be posted here. These stories emerge every so often, and they rarely seem to exist beyond Reddit. I’d be interested in this if it could be verified, but as it is this is internet rumor momgering.
What would you require for verification?
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#10This sounds like a scam call. Did the user verify that the agent was in fact in any way associated with yelp, and not just someone trying to blackmail a business owner? As a domain owner, you get these scammy SEO agents pretending to be affiliated with google all the time.
really? Based on otherwise pristine reputation for Yelp?