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by forkandwait 2304 days ago
So don't use yelp
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This would be a more attractive option if it didn't amount to 'cede yet another part of the Internet to Google'.
Reminds me of when Microsoft took over. Many of their competitors destroyed themselves in the 80s and 90s.
In my final year of university during the late 90s, we'd have different companies come in to do presentations on what they do and why we should work for them. Microsoft did a two hour presentation on how great of a place Microsoft is to work at. About a month later Sun came in and did a two hour presentation on how much Microsoft sucks and how stupid you'd have to be to go work there. We learned almost nothing about Sun from their presentation. After that I really started noticing just how much Sun allowed their business decisions to be guided by antagonizing Microsoft rather than providing products and services to their customers. I wasn't surprised at all by their eventual failure.