> What Yelp wants, is to have their cake and eat it too. That would be true if Google didn't have an effective monopoly in search. Because it is an effective m

> What Yelp wants, is to have their cake and eat it too. That would be true if Google didn't have an effective monopoly in search. Because it is an effective monopoly, saying that about Yelp is like saying a citizen that is against any form of socialism but cashes social security checks wants to have his cake and eat too. False. That citizen would prefer that social security doesn't exist, but given that it does, and given that he is forced to pay the costs, isn't going to be stupid and refuse the checks. And I say that as a free-market socialist. There are two ways to deal with a monopoly: - break it up - allow it to continue, but force it to provide equal access, at non-monopolistic rates and terms