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I'm surprised people think they wouldn't. They have the perfect hideout. Whatever the case they can always blame it on the "algorithm," and short of auditing th

by pbz 15y ago

I'm surprised people think they wouldn't. They have the perfect hideout. Whatever the case they can always blame it on the "algorithm," and short of auditing their source code, nobody can really prove them otherwise.

masterzora 15y ago
Not that perfect of a hideout. I'd love to see someone collect data for cases where they think Yelp is intentionally manipulating reviews and see how many cases aren't easily explained by good filtering criteria. [Full-disclosure: I'm friends with a good number of Yelp engineers who I expect would leave rather than take part in these such things, but I don't know any more about their codebase than any other non-Yelper.]