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Yelp.com

Fake Reviews, Fake People

a believer in truth

MAR

2009

Yelp started as an interesting concept, but was executed so poorly that it has become one of the internet's worst disasters. Yelp relies on small business owners for advertising revenue, but instead decided to focus solely on its community of reviewers (free food, free booze, all donated by the same small businesses yelp so desperately needs to survive). Yelp intentionally prevents small business owners or other reviewers from commenting on any review, and will only allow you to vote on them as funny, useful or cool. The master plan here is to take a mass of amateur reviewers and use their... read full review »