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Tomorrow, Yelp is testifying before the US Senate Judiciary Subcommittee on Antitrust in the hearing titled Self-Preferencing by Dominant Internet Platforms on competition policy and consumer rights related to Google’s self-preferencing in local search results. You can read the full testimony here.  Google deprives consumers of access to the highest quality results for their queries… Read more

Yelp Makes It Easy to Find and Support Women-Owned Businesses
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In celebration of last year’s International Women’s Day, Yelp announced the Women-Owned Business attribute alongside a partnership with Rebecca Minkoff and Female Founder Collective, to help people support female entrepreneurs in their local communities across the country. Since its launch in 2019, more than 72,000 businesses have added the feature to their Yelp pages.  Today,… Read more

Data

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Most local economies nationwide slumped in 2019, according to Yelp data, dragged down by weakness in restaurants and retail. As the local economy goes, so goes the national economy. The productivity of most plumbers, pastry chefs, and personal-injury lawyers isn’t reflected in stock indexes and business headlines, but collectively they make up a vital part… Read more

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Yelp is committed to empowering and protecting consumers by surfacing important information they typically can’t otherwise easily find about local businesses. To that end, we developed the Local Inspector Value-Entry Specification (LIVES) program, which allows municipalities to publish restaurant health inspection information to Yelp, helping consumers make informed choices about safe places to eat. In… Read more

Careers

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There is nothing we love more than being part of a diverse community where innovation thrives. That’s why we’re excited to announce that we are expanding the team in Toronto and joining the party up north! Toronto has become a fast-growing tech hub over the years, and we can’t wait to bring more jobs to… Read more

• #Community, #News, #Impact

2019 in Review This year at the Yelp Foundation, we continued to think hard about maximizing our social impact and supporting the needs of the local communities where Yelpers work and live. Our mission is to support charitable organizations and activities addressing the needs of local communities, including access to information, education, local economic development,… Read more

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Just in time for the busy holiday shopping and dining season, Yelp is making it easier than ever for consumers to support inclusive businesses. Yelp is continuing its partnership with Open to All, a non-profit that aims to protect consumers from discrimination, by launching a search filter for the “Open to All” business attribute, and… Read more

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Today Yelp is releasing 198 Consumer Alerts this quarter, notifying consumers of biased review practices that, if left unchecked, would result in misleading business ratings. These alerts are one of the ways Yelp informs the public of egregious attempts to influence ratings and reviews, for example by offering compensation in exchange for reviews or spamming… Read more

Yelp Economic Average Local Economy
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Yelp’s Economic Indicator Is Up By 0.07% Nationally, A Possible Signal Of GDP Growth  Yelp’s measure of the strength of local economies nationwide shows a modest rebound in the third quarter and continued stagnation in the urban centers of California, the nation’s most populous state and biggest economy.  California’s position in the national and global… Read more