Comments on: Yelp’s Local Reviews

By: Sexymama

Sexymama — Wed, 03 Dec 2008 21:39:25 +0000

wow..wtf is up with this shit?
W0W0W

By: Jeff

Jeff — Wed, 26 Nov 2008 01:16:27 +0000

My business used Yelp and found it to be a poor representation of what is described as an organic social networking site. Poor customer service from the account representatives and little to no assistance once you have signed your contract. Highly recommend other means of spending you advertising dollars.

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By: Geeta

Geeta — Fri, 02 Mar 2007 14:03:54 +0000

A really new cool social networking site for Indians/South Asians worldwide is GoYaar.com. It has a Yelp like local review section for all major cities in India and cities around the world with a lot of South Asians – it is integrated with GOogle Maps – but until google maps gets better in the India city address – it can’t really pinpoint the location. Has 100s of categories to review like Yelp…but the social network features are much more in-depth than Yelp…ajax enabled..yada yada

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Multimedias.mobi » Troubled Insider Pages Acquired By CitySearch — Thu, 01 Mar 2007 16:57:12 +0000

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[...] company, originally founded by idealab, has faced heavy competition from Yelp and others. They closed a $8.5 million round of financing from Sequoia and Softbank Capital in [...]

By: Larissa

Larissa — Wed, 10 Jan 2007 15:54:08 +0000

Yelp is good. Judy’s book has become waaaaaaaaaaaay to commercialized. Didn’t even know Google’s local was functional. There is another great review website called Buzzerfly at http://www.buzzerfly.com. Like it cause it’s easy to navigate and no commercialization.

By: Mark

Mark — Sun, 17 Dec 2006 07:52:38 +0000

Rave About It is an Australian website that aims to provide an enjoyable way in which users can search, rate and discuss what they think of services in their local area and beyond. Check it out!
http://www.raveaboutit.com.au

By: Monique

Monique — Tue, 05 Dec 2006 00:06:20 +0000

Super!
http://www.chau...webverzeichnis/

By: TechCrunch Japanese アーカイブ » ローカルレビューサイトのYelp、 $10M（1000万ドル）を確保

TechCrunch Japanese アーカイブ » ローカルレビューサイトのYelp、 $10M（1000万ドル）を確保 — Thu, 05 Oct 2006 16:47:17 +0000

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By: no credit check

no credit check — Sun, 27 Aug 2006 09:34:57 +0000

clock suffocate paying parentage detained?reversing belying – Tons of interesdting stuff!!!

By: Phil See

Phil See — Thu, 10 Aug 2006 16:16:31 +0000

Yelp has moderators to ensure the address of a company is correct. It also allow you to upload pictures of the business both in and out and to input the url of the business and they are now in a few major cities. They also organize Yelp events where Yelpers will dine at the same new establishment and then each yelper will write their own review of the place. It’s also a way for Yelpers to meet other members of the Yelp family. The only problem I have with Yelp is their talk boards. I think they should be on a totally seperate site and unrelated to their home site with the exception of a Yelp talk page relating to businesses and services only and as a means of providing tips to new businesses. Otherwise, I don’t think Yelp can be beat by anyone, even wikis. And I predict they are going to be the measure for related sites.

By: privacy issues

privacy issues — Thu, 13 Jul 2006 18:08:10 +0000

what about the fact that yelp is providing people with the opportunity to disclose personal and private information about individuals for the world to see? i have a right to my personal information such as my name and my address, but a user of yelp has posted this information for all the world to see. while reviews are useful, the way that it is presented is essential in maintaining a universal respect.

By: mo

mo — Tue, 31 Jan 2006 09:05:32 +0000

One major flaw…it’s a walled garden.

it does not provide the necessary info (phone number, weblink) to the business. why? because they are trying to force the businesses to pay a fee to advertise with them. if the business does not know about yelp, they would have no link to their own site.

now with the handful of these local hubs popping up, what’s a local business to do? have advertising deals with all of them?

google local is free. once google add a public comment feature, yelp is dead.

By: rose

rose — Fri, 20 Jan 2006 06:51:05 +0000

ya, its wonderful, u can find the biz, but y look 4 all these & contact them, when u can find all the info @ this site http://www.wuraweb.com/. its the local reviews(every1 luvs + prices) what more can u ask 4, already in my bookmarks. its a growing site, so u may want 2 give them time. but i guess they workin on that because they lettin advertisers list free.

By: Mashable* - Pete Cashmore on Web2.0 » Yelp - Local Business Reviews

Mashable* - Pete Cashmore on Web2.0 » Yelp - Local Business Reviews — Wed, 04 Jan 2006 20:21:23 +0000

[...] Yelp launched back in the pre-Mashable era (circa 2004), but after hearing John C. Dvorak evangelising it on the This Week in Tech podcast, I figured I’d take another look. I also dug up this old TechCrunch post which explains how Yelp works: Yelp is a website that allows users to write and share reviews of local businesses. It also has social networking features (adding friends, groups, etc.) to share reviews with a trust network. The idea is that people generally trust their friends’ recommendations…All of this user-generated content on local businesses, combined with the Yelp search engine, also provides great inventory for Yelp to sell local businesses contextual advertising…There are a number of other companies that are targeting local business reviews in an almost identical way. For instance, check out Judy’s Book, profiled previously and idealabs’ InsiderPages. [...]

By: nick

nick — Tue, 27 Dec 2005 20:00:49 +0000

Another great social network site with local reviews is http://www.revju.com . Here you could be a winer of an ipod too.

By: tom

tom — Thu, 15 Dec 2005 21:40:42 +0000

kaveh, yelp *does* allow you to add new businesses, correct business info and post photos/comments. it may not be totally wiki-like, but the features are there.

By: TechCrunch » Intuit’s Zipingo Joins Local Business Review Sites

TechCrunch » Intuit’s Zipingo Joins Local Business Review Sites — Mon, 28 Nov 2005 07:58:24 +0000

[...] Zinpingo joins the ranks of local business review and ranking services such as Yelp, Judy’s Book (which just raised $8 million from Mobius Venture Capital, Ignition Partners and Ackerley Partners) and Insider Pages. [...]

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TechCrunch » — Mon, 28 Nov 2005 07:57:04 +0000

By: Dork Master

Dork Master — Wed, 09 Nov 2005 16:24:56 +0000

One new twist on this idea is another SF site, NiftyGuy (www.niftyguy.com) where people review people (instead of thousands of restuarants, etc). Sort of like a P-pinions, you can find reviews on doctors, dentists, agents, hairstylists, etc and even dates!

By: kaveh

kaveh — Mon, 24 Oct 2005 17:30:55 +0000

One cannot ignore Yahoo!’s recent big push (has always been active in this area, but) in the local search & review space.

The problem with Yelp, Judy’s Books and alike services are the lack of incentives for users to participate when it comes to submitting a review. I bet you would find a very high search to contribution ratio … what motivates people to contribute to wikipedia is very different than review of local listings … this may or may not be the best ‘by the people for the people’ type service. When you have a dedicated group of reviewers writing the review, then rest of us commenting on it by sharing our experience may be the way to go.

Even a bigger issue is the fact that these services are not wikis!! Why not? The emphasis should be put on letting users easily add new businesses, correct a description of a place, post comments and pictures, etc. Instead, Yelp has become another CitySearch, with fancier member profiles. We need more member profiles, like we need another hole in the head!!

Sorry guys, Yelp is not a Web 2.0 company and is not even innovative enough to be a notable Web 1.0 company.

By: seshasayanan pratap

seshasayanan pratap — Tue, 18 Oct 2005 01:28:41 +0000

I have tried out all three sites mentioned – Yelp, Judy’s Book, and InsiderPages – and Yelp is the best of the lot. The user interface and social networking capabilities of Yelp are extremely very well designed and implemented. The site has recently added a mapping capability that makes browsing for local establishments a breeze.

My initial interest in Yelp was to just look around, but I found some great restaurant reviews and decided to invite several friends to join within minutes of signing on to the site. I haven’t had a similar experience with either of the other sites