And that's only half the problem. As a developer, trying to use Yelp's API for anything by shop details is a waste of time. The search results are either completely random or do full-text search on the full review sets for each place.

We got some useless (albeit hilarious) results when using expletives such as 'f*face' and 'bullshit' as search terms. I guess the listed merchants wouldn't find it half as funny.