Yelp Review Manipulation
Comments primarily criticize Yelp for shady practices like extorting businesses, filtering or removing reviews unless they pay for premium listings, and generating fake reviews, often comparing it to similar issues with other platforms.
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Doesn't Yelp offer astro-turfing for $$$? I hope that this practice doesn't fall under the umbrella of "don't be evil."
Maybe yelp paid a firm to generate positive reviews of yelp?
Shouldn't this be Yelp's job?
Hope Google stops stealing reviews from Yelp now.
Yelp is terrible. They actually extort business to show good reviews as well
Agreed, Yelp does the same thing.
Yelp has a lot of actual power...
This is rather indirect, but didn't Google try to purchase Yelp a while ago? And isn't Yelp known for trying to extort business owners?
Isn't this kind of the core of the problem with Yelp ?
Why is it harder to fake reviews on Yelp?