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How Yelp Protects Consumers From Fake Reviews

Luther Lowe | Posted 05.15.2013 | Media

Read More: Craigslist Yelp, Yelp Reviews, Eater, Yelp, Craigslist Yelp Ad, Yelp Restaurant Reviews, Small Business News, Craigslist, Media News

Yesterday, the blog Eater posted an entry about an alarming Craigslist ad by an unscrupulous business owner attempting to pay for fake Yelp reviews. The good news is that Yelp has pioneered successful strategies in fighting consumer fraud.

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Another Reason To Never Trust Yelp

Posted 05.15.2013 | Small Business

Read More: Craigslist Yelp, Video, Yelp Restaurant Reviews, Craigslist, Yelp, Craigslist Yelp Ad, Yelp Reviews, My City My Day, Small Business News

There are countless stories about how Yelp can damage small businesses and countless more about how Yelp reviews aren't particularly reliable. To add ...

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Yelp Reviews Local Prisons

The Huffington Post | Erin Ruberry | Posted 04.30.2013 | DC

Read More: Virginia, Detention Centers, Video, Funny Yelp Reviews, The Colbert Report, Virginia Jails, Weird Yelp Reviews, Prison, Washington DC, Yelp, Maryland Jails, Jail, Dc Jail, Yelp Prison Reviews, Yelp Reviews, Maryland, DC News

WASHINGTON -- "Only 3 basic cable channels and no nets for the basketball hoops are the least of the problems here. But the staff is decent..." Yel...

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Inmates Are Reviewing Prisons On Yelp

The Huffington Post | Andy Campbell | Posted 04.29.2013 | Weird News

Read More: Prison Yelp Reviews, Jail Yelp Reviews, Yelp Jail Reviews, Yelp, Yelp Prison Reviews, Yelp Reviews, Prison Reviews, Weird News News

Reviewing prisons online isn't a new practice, and it's often easy to detect sarcasm or rage in former inmates' comments about their facilities. Bu...

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Here's How Social Media Is Changing Retail

Beverly Macy | Posted 04.29.2013 | Business

Read More: Tory Burch, Retail Trends, Pinterest, H&M, Yelp, Jcp, Path to Purchase, Smartphones, Twitter, Retail, The Power of Social Media, Facebook, Social Media, Shopping, Business News

Today's digital consumer is expecting their favorite retailers and brands to know how to operate in the social and mobile environment. They're not just looking for the best shopper experience possible -- they are demanding it.

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San Francisco Sign Calls Yelp 'Bully'

Foodbeast | Posted 04.23.2013 | Taste

Read More: Ad Buys, Sf, Yelp Reviews, Yelp, Bai Thong Thai, San Francisco, Food in Media, Taste News

As Yelp strives to increase its profitability, the issue of how much influence ad sales have on the integrity of their reviews will continue to be as pressing as ever.

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Yelp Reviews on Life

Leslie Goshko | Posted 03.22.2013 | Comedy

Read More: Human-Existence, Reviews, Humor, Satire, Yelp, Humanity, Future Generations, Yelp Reviews, Comedy News, Humor and Satire, Comedy, Life, Human Experience, Planet Earth, Carl Jung, Comedy News

Much like chocolate and peanut butter, Mork and Mindy, Jack and Coke, certain things just belong together. Which is why it's about time that the follo...

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Social Media Is Just Getting Started

Brett King | Posted 04.28.2013 | Technology

Read More: Roi, Radio, Yelp, Social Media, Tv, Airbnb, Lending Club, Kickstarter, Uber, Some, Technology News

As social media continues to embed itself in modern society, we have many traditional businesses and brands still scratching their heads trying to make sense of it all.

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WATCH: 60 Seconds of Social Media

Shawn Amos | Posted 03.30.2013 | Technology

Read More: User Reviews, Social Media, Yelp, Foursquare, Facebook Graph Search, Technology News

When you're about to buy a new TV, do you look for consumer reviews on sites like Amazon, or professional reviews? If you're like 77% of people, you c...

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Yelp Reviews for Realtors?

Jon Bronson | Posted 03.27.2013 | Business

Read More: Realtors, Yelp, Real Estate, Yelp Reviews, Business News

Did you find them on an ad they took out on a bus sign clutching a cell phone with an antennae on it (ugh)? Or have they been hitting you with pads and paper with their face on it for a decade (ugh) claiming they are your "neighborhood specialist"?

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Awful ID Card Lets 'Reviewers' Browbeat Restaurants

Posted 01.22.2013 | Home

Read More: Video, Restaurant Review Credit Card, Restaurants, Reviewercard Restaurant Reviews, Yelp, Yelp Reviews, Restaurant Reviews, Reviewercard, Home News

The days of restaurant critics donning fake noses and elaborate costumes to conceal their identities from restaurateurs are long gone. The LA Times re...

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WATCH: 60 Seconds of Social Media

Shawn Amos | Posted 03.21.2013 | Technology

Read More: Foursquare, Yelp, Facebook, Obama Inauguration, President Obama, Graph Search, Technology News

Did Facebook just usher in a new era of personalized search? Facebook's big reveal this week wasn't the rumored Facebook phone as some had hoped, but...

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Restaurant Health Grades? Now You Can Find Them On Yelp

The Huffington Post | Katherine Bindley | Posted 01.17.2013 | Home

Restaurant-goers curious about the cleanliness of the environments they're eating in and how safe the food is have had to rely on two different strate...

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Feeding Off of Facebook

Christopher Webb | Posted 03.10.2013 | Home

Read More: Google, Yelp, Facebook, Foursquare, Restaurant Apps, Facebook Nearby, Finding Restaurants, Finding Local Restaurants, Restaurant Phone Apps, Social Media Restaurants, Home News

As mobile and social technologies evolve, consumers are exploring new ways to find and compare local restaurants. Social search is taking on an increasingly important role in local discovery.

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Are Instagram Users Fleeing?

The Huffington Post | Dino Grandoni | Posted 01.18.2013 | Technology

Read More: Instagram, Video, Twitter, Pinterest, New York Post, Instagram Drop, Instagram Drop Users, Yelp, Instagram Terms of Service, Facebook, Pandora, Spotify, Technology News

The New York Post, knowing sensationalism like no other, wrote an article Friday about Instagram that must have sent jitters through the folks in Face...

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Restaurateur Guns For TripAdvisor After Negative Reviews

The Huffington Post | Rachel Tepper | Posted 12.11.2012 | Home

It's hardly news these days that chefs and review sites often find themselves at odds. Reviews can determine whether a restaurant sinks or swims -- a ...

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Yelp Review Could Cost Woman Nearly $1 Million

Posted 12.07.2012 | Small Business

Read More: Yelp, Video, Yelp Reviews, Defamation, Jane Perez Yelp Review, Lawsuit, Negative Yelp Reviews, Small Business News

A negative Yelp review could cost one woman close to $1 million. Jane Perez, a Virginia woman who wrote a scathing Yelp review of the contracting ...

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Who Really Owns Your Brand?

Karen Leland | Posted 02.04.2013 | Small Business

Read More: Branding, Marketing, Small Business, Brand, Youtube Marketing, Social Media Marketing, Social Media Business, Yelp Business, YouTube Channel, Yelp, Entrepreneurs, Youtube Business, Small Business News

Take advantage of the visual web. Encourage your customers to make and share their own videos about your products and services. Monitor your Twitter closely.

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Restaurant Broadcasts Bad Yelp Reviews In Bathroom

Posted 12.11.2012 | Home

Chefs and restaurateurs have notoriously mixed feelings about Yelp. Eateries blessed by glowing user reviews on the popular website often attract far ...

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WATCH: Yelp Reveals How It Catches Phonies

Posted 12.03.2012 | Small Business

Read More: Yelp Bad Reviews, Yelp Fake Reviews, Yelp Sting, Jeremy Stoppelman, Yelp, Video, Yelp Reviews, Yelp Ceo, Small Business News

In a recent interview with Business Insider, Yelp CEO Jeremy Stoppelman speaks about the company's response to businesses that buy Yelp reviews to ske...

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Elon Musk: A Self-Made Entrepreneur

Avijeet Sachdev | Posted 02.02.2013 | Teen

Read More: Yelp, Tech Startups, Paypal, Entrepreneurs, Elon Musk, Entrepreneurship, Netscape, Teen News

I personally admire Elon Musk as an entrepreneur not only because of the work he's done, but also because of his constant determination to do great things.

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iOS, Android and a New Genre of Good-Enough Information

Adam Rugel | Posted 12.22.2012 | Technology

Read More: Google, Iphone, Yelp, Apple, Android, Ios, Technology News

What might seem like a meritocracy of free-flowing information is really just a way for Google and Apple to appropriate truckloads of free information to create proprietary databases of good-enough data. Where does this leave unique, local voices?

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Yelp's New Badge Of Shame

AP | Posted 10.18.2012 | Small Business

Read More: Yelp Fake Reviews, Video, Small Business, Yelp Businesses, Yelp Fake Review, Yelp Small Business, Yelp, Yelp Lawsuit, Yelp Reviews, Yelp-Extortion, Small Business News

SAN FRANCISCO -- Yelp says it will alert users if it suspects that a business has tried to buy fake, misleading reviews on its site. Yelp Inc. said T...

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You Had Me @ LOL: Finding Your Soul Mate on Social Sites

HuffingtonPost.com | Bianca Bosker | Posted 12.18.2012 | Technology

Read More: Instagram, Huffington, Social Media, Video, Hashtags, Twitter, Huffington Magazine, Huffmag, Love and Relationships, nerve.com, Yelp, turntable.fm, Facebook, Love, Cyber-Dating, Technology News

When Dianna Hank first met Noah Zitsman (a.k.a. “Noze”), he was a black bear with red eyes and antennae. She was “Dianna_2ns,” a pink monk...

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Just How Powerful Is Yelp?

Foodbeast | Posted 12.08.2012 | Home

Read More: The Playground, Yelp, Foodbeast, Restaurants, Yelp Reviews, Yelp Restaurant Reviews, Home News

Review aggregate website Yelp.com serves over 78 million unique people monthly, who use the site to sift through over 40 million reviews. These are monstrous stats, as the now ubiquitous review system serves as a powerful gateway between consumer and potential new dining experience.

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