Tag: Online Reviews

Yelp Lets You Look At Trends From The Past 10 Years (For Some Cities At Least)
Yelp is showing off a new tool called Yelp Trends, which gives you access to its ten years' worth of data to get a look at trends on a city...
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Yelp Reviews Are About To Appear In A Lot More Places
Yelp announced some big news late on Tuesday. They've increased the call limit on their API to 25,000 per day, and made it easier for developers to use, in addition to opening it u...
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People Are Trusting Online Reviews More Than Ever
It appears that people are not only turning to online reviews for local businesses more and more, but they are actually trusting them more than ever despite all the media coverage...
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Did Yelp Just Become Better For Businesses?
Yelp may have a tough time overcoming negative perception from some businesses thanks to a seemingly never-ending barrage of unproven accusations, but the company continues to add...
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Should Yelp Be Worried About Amazon?
This week, Reuters reported that Amazon is readying the launch of a new local services marketplace, which would not only compete with large chain stores, but also with local review...
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Yelp On The Defensive Once Again
Once again, Yelp is drawing the kind of media attention that it would like to avoid, but which has been following it around for years. You know the deal. A business claims Yelp is...
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Are Video Reviews On Yelp A Good Idea?
Yelp is reportedly getting video reviews. As of the time of this writing, the company hasn't formally announced the feature yet, but Business Insider...
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Yelp Equates Asking For Reviews To Spam
Yelp announced on Wednesday that it has issued a new round of Consumer Alerts, the warnings that appear on businesses' Yelp pages informing users that they're not to be trusted. Th...
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Better Business Bureau Defends Yelp
Rarely does a week go by these days in which there isn't at least one report of business owners complaining about Yelp's business practices. The latest one comes from an ABC affili...
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Yelp Earnings Released, Revenue Up 65% YoY
Yelp just released its earnings report for the first quarter with revenue at $76.4 billion, up 66% from the same period last year. Cumulative reviews grew by 46% year-over-year...
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Talk Examines How Consumers Assess ‘Absolute Value’ With Today’s Buying Tools
Google is sharing a recent talk from Itamar Simonsen and Emanual Rosen on "absolute value". It examines how consumers asses the value of things they buy using tools of the modern e...
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Yelp Lets Businesses Highlight Bitcoin Acceptance
Yelp announced that it is now showing when businesses accept Bitcoin on business pages. This comes as a new attribute in the "More Business Info" section....
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Google Removes Some Zagat Reviews, Says Overall Ratings For Businesses May Be Affected
Some businesses may soon find that their ratings on Google have changed for better or for worse. They're doing away with old anonymous Zagat reviews - the ones where the person's n...
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Yelp Launches In Japan, Expands Platform To Spas & Salons
Continuing its ongoing international expansion, Yelp announced that it has now launched in Japan. This is the company's 26th country, following a...
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FTC Has Seen 2,046 Complaints About Yelp In Recent Years
The FTC disclosed this week that there have been 2,046 complaints fi...
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