Articles tagged “yelp”

How closely Google will be watched is the real question do doubt concerned parties like Yelp and Expedia will help remind the government when Google strays too far.

Is TripAdvisor playing around with all of these products surrounding its hotel advertising business, or is the company becoming an all-purpose travel site? We suspect the latter.

Facebook's keen interest in restaurants and local search should be a major worry to Yelp regardless how much CEO Stoppelman tries to shrug off the threat.

The article's a bit overblown, too: Yelp has a bit of a runway on pure reviews, while Google still flounders with Plus and the Facebook threat is still much to early to count.

Facebook Graph Search is a fun tweak for tracking your friends, but it isn't a serious restaurant or travel research tool, for now.

Facebook already made life difficult for social travel startups, but its latest move into local discovery will run into the same problem as its wannabe competitors did: The functionality is limited by the quality and tastes of your social graph.

Hotel and restaurant owners may smell an opportunity here to attack false claims rather than complain about negative opinions.

We're still waiting to see what Google will do with Frommer's, but Google's acquisition of Zagat hasn't stymied Yelp's growth.

Yelp needs to fix its sales team issues soon. And even though mobile usage growth is encouraging, monetization there will be a challenge going ahead.

The added functionality is better than making users click through to restaurants’ own websites and adds another layer of community to Yelp who will rely on users for photos of menu items.