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Good. The Yelp app/site is basically the same it was 5 years ago. Rather than innovate they chose to: - Opt for the shakedown/extortion method of ranking site
by cletus 8y ago
Good.
The Yelp app/site is basically the same it was 5 years ago. Rather than innovate they chose to:
- Opt for the shakedown/extortion method of ranking sites (those that advertised with Yelp rank higher, negative reviews can mysteriously disappear for advertisers)
- Whine to regulators about Google is stealing content from them (by, you know, serving a snippet of content that Yelp allows to be scraped).
- Harass users to install their (shitty) app.
This is just bad management/leadership to the core and such a waste opportunity. A telltale sign of this is the demonization of some nefarious third-party and blaming all your woes on them, which they've clearly done with Google. Don't think that's effective? Look at the current state of US politics.
I really have no time for these shenanigans.
- amelius 8y ago> The Yelp app/site is basically the same it was 5 years ago. Out of context, that would be a good thing. I hate it when a company changes user interface every week, just to stay in fashion.
- codezero 8y agoKind of an aside to your points, but I opened Yelp on my iPod Touch (first gen) and was flabbergasted to see that despite being un-updated and on an ancient version of iOS, the app still worked! This is pretty amazing, given that most companies' API endpoints from ten years ago don't still work today :)
- eof 8y agoActually, I would say Yelp is far worse than it was 5 years ago. Not sure how much fault it is of Yelp's, but reviews aren't really worth as much today as they were in Yelp's early days.
- kadendogthing 8y ago>Opt for the shakedown/extortion method of ranking sites Do you have any proof of this?
- deelowe 8y agoNo. No one does because it doesn't happen.