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"The mere appearance of a conflict of interest is sufficient to signify a conflict of interest." And what gives there a conflict of interest? The algorithm has
by illuminate 13y ago
"The mere appearance of a conflict of interest is sufficient to signify a conflict of interest."
And what gives there a conflict of interest? The algorithm has absolutely nothing to do with what advertising businesses pay for or do not pay for. This much is known.
- specialist 13y agoYelp is not Consumer Reports. Yelp, Google, UrbanSpoon, YellowPages all charge for placement. And that's fine. But the veneer of collaborative filtering is a con. It's no different than the industry standard quid pro quo system of reviews for ads in tech / product magazines. Yelp's claim to some form of algorithm objectivity doesn't change the power dynamic. In other words, I don't credulously believe there to be a functioning Chinese firewall separating the business functions within Yelp. Because those firewalls rarely work, if ever. But hey, to each their own.