Re:Yelp Walks Away From Google Deal, And Half A Billion Dollars
by rubyrescue on Monday December 21, 2009 @07:53AM
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Yelp is, from my observations, anything but active. They haven't innovated in terms of UI or features in probably two years. Even geographies have been slow to develop - UK took a long time to appear.
In fact, they're oddly static - the number of reviewed restaurants and stores has increased quite slowly for most cities, they haven't done a good job pushing into smaller markets.
Admittedly this is my anecdotal observation but i've been following yelp pretty closely since they launched and honestly up until the Google acquisition attempt, i was wondering if they were short on cash because they seem to spend so little energy on product/design/site and there seemed to be a bit of desperation in the whole 'yelpscam.com' accusations, which appear to be legitimate.
In fact, they're oddly static - the number of reviewed restaurants and stores has increased quite slowly for most cities, they haven't done a good job pushing into smaller markets.
Admittedly this is my anecdotal observation but i've been following yelp pretty closely since they launched and honestly up until the Google acquisition attempt, i was wondering if they were short on cash because they seem to spend so little energy on product/design/site and there seemed to be a bit of desperation in the whole 'yelpscam.com' accusations, which appear to be legitimate.