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Yelp in NYC is infuriating to use. Not only it does not know neighborhoods, it is incapable of identifying rivers that separate areas. Ask it for places in Gree
by notyourday 8y ago
Yelp in NYC is infuriating to use. Not only it does not know neighborhoods, it is incapable of identifying rivers that separate areas. Ask it for places in Greenpoint and it would happily include stuff in Manhattan, sometimes well before it runs out of the Greenpoint options which could be OK had Greenpoint not been separated from Manhattan by the East River.
Yelp is also happy to manipulate reviews contrary to their denials. It is rather funny, of course, because it seems that no one in the tech leadership of the company understands how easy it is to take a screenshot of a review.
- smelendez 8y agoIt was honestly faster to do a lot of searches with the old paper Zagat books than modern Yelp, since they were compiled by people who understood the cities they were covering. I don't remember this being as much of an issue when Yelp launched? It seems like there are certain restaurants (advertisers? mathematically trending places?) that they're determined to shoehorn into any search result. Also, it's frustrating how every review site I've tried constantly turns off the "open now" filter. I get that people want to plan tomorrow's lunch at 10pm, but other people just want to quickly find a decent place to take their hungry friends.
- ilikehurdles 8y agoThe neighborhood identification is unreliable. I tend to just move the map to the area I want to search in.
- pnw_hazor 8y agoI found some nice causal places to eat in Hell's Kitchen. I wanted to get away from the tourist spots near our hotel. Yelp worked great.