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Re:The software industry's greatest sin: hiring by onion2k on Friday April 10, 2020 @01:57AM (#22830384)
Yelp actually ripped off the Yellow Pages. The name comes from YEL-low-P-ages. The Yellow Pages was a paper-based business telephone directory that started decades earlier.
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Re:The software industry's greatest sin: hiring by ravenstine on Friday April 10, 2020 @02:04AM (#22830415)
Oh, for sure, but comparing the state of Yellowpages.com now to its state in 2014, it's clear that someone decided to make the design and UX uncannily similar to that of Yelp. Of course Yellow Pages the concept was around before Yelp.

However, YellowPages.com ripped off the concept of yellow pages just as much as Yelp.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Yellow_pages

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Re:The software industry's greatest sin: hiring by kortilla on Friday April 10, 2020 @05:55AM (#22831477)
What made yelp good was the reviews, not the listings. This is the part that yellowpages turned around and ripped off.
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Re:The software industry's greatest sin: hiring by kyuudou on Friday April 10, 2020 @10:14AM (#22833207)
That's not exactly an original concept, though.
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Re:The software industry's greatest sin: hiring by ravenstine on Friday April 10, 2020 @04:09PM (#22836879)
I think people are misunderstanding what I meant.

I'm saying that the YellowPages.com is a ripoff of the Yelp design and experience. If you changed just the logo and the color, it would look identical to Yelp, or at least how it looked before the recent redesign. Of course business listings and ratings are nothing new.

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