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Re:Yelp Is Replacing Restaurants’ Phone Numbers So Grubhub C... by soup10 on Tuesday August 06, 2019 @05:05PM (#20629618)
What are you talking about stiff competition? Google just lazily cloned it and hijack the results of restaurant searches so they win by default.
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Re:Yelp Is Replacing Restaurants’ Phone Numbers So Grubhub C... by monitorman on Tuesday August 06, 2019 @05:15PM (#20629715)
You challenge that it is stiff competition in your first sentence, then you define that Google is, indeed, stiff competition in your second.
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Re:Yelp Is Replacing Restaurants’ Phone Numbers So Grubhub C... by soup10 on Tuesday August 06, 2019 @06:04PM (#20630144)
Hijacking search results because they are sour the Yelp deal didn't go their way isn't competing LOL. They've already been fined billions for similar behavior.
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Re:Yelp Is Replacing Restaurants’ Phone Numbers So Grubhub C... by goobynight on Tuesday August 06, 2019 @06:21PM (#20630267)
They own the search results. Google isn't a public utility that gets hijacked.

Yelp can start their own search competitor if they enjoy(ed) the synergy.

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Re:Yelp Is Replacing Restaurants’ Phone Numbers So Grubhub C... by soup10 on Tuesday August 06, 2019 @06:36PM (#20630360)
EU regulators disagree.
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