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Yelp CEO Compares Google To Trump After It Buries TripAdvisor Results

Google has been been burying TripAdvisor search results underneath its own search results even when users specifically use “tripadvisor” as a keyword. Naturally, this gives companies like ...
Yelp CEO Compares Google To Trump After It Buries TripAdvisor Results
Written by Chris Crum
  • Google has been been burying TripAdvisor search results underneath its own search results even when users specifically use “tripadvisor” as a keyword.

    Naturally, this gives companies like TripAdvisor and Yelp some new ammo in their frequent complaints that Google is stifling competition in local search.

    According to Re/Code, Google has brushed the whole thing off as a bug:

    Nope, it’s a bug, claims Google. “The issues cited were caused by a recent code push, which we’re working quickly to fix,” a Google spokeswoman said.

    Yelp CEO Jeremy Stoppelman tweeted this:

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