This is basically study done by Yelp employees saying that Google results for local intent queries include more from Google+ than on Yelp and people participate

This is basically study done by Yelp employees saying that Google results for local intent queries include more from Google+ than on Yelp and people participated in their study didn't liked that. Well... Yelp obviously wants to monetize their (ummm, sorry, users content) content. I would think company like Google wouldn't have much problem paying Yelp but probably their demands are too much (just my guess). So Google showed them the door and decided to do their own thing and now Yelp has problem with that. For companies like Yelp, I would suggest they respect users intent and rights. Millions of users have sweated on to create all these content on Yelp. They shouldn't be building a giant walled garden around it. Instead they should just make all data available with a fair license to anyone who wants to use it. When more companies like Apple, Samsung etc buys their licences, it might be overall better for them than to get one huge deal out of one company. May be they should even make their data available for free for research (they did made small part available, but I'm saying why not all of it?). When the community works on this data, lot of cool ideas can spark which again benefit them to get more licensing deals and would make it worth for users who sweated out to create all this content.