Thursday, July 10, 2014

Yelp Complains That Its Being Outranked By Google+ Local Listings by @mattsouthern

TechCrunch broke the news today that a  Yelp internal document was recently leaked online claiming Google is promoting its own content at the expense of users. The presentation gives examples of how Google+ local listings appear first in Google’s search results, ahead of Yelp, even in instances when the word “Yelp” is specifically included in the search query. Here’s an example of a Google search for “gary danko yelp”. Gary Danko is a popular San Francisco restaurant, and this example shows how Google is serving links to reviews published on Google+ ahead of a link to Yelp’s page for the restaurant. […]


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Yelp Complains That Its Being Outranked By Google+ Local Listings by @mattsouthern

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