Isn't this what Google did with Yelp? IIRC, google was in talks with yelp to buy them out. They either pulled out or lowballed them. Then a few months later the

Isn't this what Google did with Yelp? IIRC, google was in talks with yelp to buy them out. They either pulled out or lowballed them. Then a few months later they launched "Google Places" At the time, this was referred to as a "brainfuck" of smaller companies for their IP.