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Re:Yelp Is Replacing Restaurants’ Phone Numbers So Grubhub C... by tyingq on Tuesday August 06, 2019 @11:53AM (#20626282)
Is the extortion scheme as simple as that? Paying businesses get "Yelp Sort", non-payers get "Default Sort"?

If so, that answers a lot of questions.

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Re:Yelp Is Replacing Restaurants’ Phone Numbers So Grubhub C... by InitialLastName on Tuesday August 06, 2019 @12:05PM (#20626426)
That's not far off of how (Yelp's partner) Grubhub operates, where the default sort for restaurants is in descending order of the cut they give Grubhub.
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Re:Yelp Is Replacing Restaurants’ Phone Numbers So Grubhub C... by ViViDboarder on Tuesday August 06, 2019 @12:01PM (#20626378)
No. I believe every page defaults to the same sort.
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Re:Yelp Is Replacing Restaurants’ Phone Numbers So Grubhub C... by Dylan16807 on Wednesday August 07, 2019 @01:12AM (#20632133)
They default to the "same" sort, but that sort acts differently depending on whether you've given Yelp money.
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