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Yelp Is Growing 80 Percent A Year
- robk 17y agoIt makes me sad that Yelp won't innovate in their core product. The site UI is virtually unchanged in 3+ years. I'd love to see them un-bury the histogram of ratings, and add granularity such that a tween complaining about the waiter's shoes isn't weighed the same as a 500-word review of a tasting menu's intricacies.
- callmeed 17y agoAfter reading this article and some of the comments, Yelp reminds me of the Stephen Kaufer/TripAdvisor chapter in Founders at Work. TripAdvisor was acquired by IAC/Expedia, which made perfect sense seeing as they were pushing so many users over to travel sites for booking. I'm just trying to see if there's a similar fit for Yelp. Maybe something like OpenTable, although they don't have a huge market share. I don't know ...
- smhinsey 17y agoI doubt they have the money, although there's an outside chance one of them could scrape it up, but it strikes me as a fairly perfect fit for any big newspaper, such as the NYT or the Washington Post, who actually has a somewhat similar (good, but it's no Yelp) local product.
- jcromartie 17y agoBy users, not dollars...