[buckhx]

I'm not a Yelp sympathizer, but this does pretty clearly look like a violation on Google's side. Building up local content is hard and expensive and to represent someone else's content as their own is pretty unethical. If Google wants to present Yelp's content, they need to come up with a deal or grow their own photography content the hard way.

[ocdtrekkie]

FWIW, Google has been building their own content library of photos of local businesses. Android phones these days actually request users share photos they take with Google for inclusion into their Places content. Not sure which app/service is responsible for it, but I hear a lot of people talk about it.

[Ajedi32]

> Not sure which app/service is responsible for it

Google Maps. It also asks questions sometimes like "Does this place only accept cash?" or "Is this place wheelchair accessible?"

I think recently they even added a feature that lets people ask their own questions which then get answered by people who recently visited the place in question.