Are Those Real People Or Sock Puppets Raving On Yelp About A New Brooklyn …

New York Attorney General Eric T. Schneiderman announced a crack down on businesses hiring firms to provide fake rave Yelp reviews recently, fining some as much at $100,000. The practice is called “astroturfing” and black hat marketing firms offer the service of “sock puppet” reviewers to restaurants to boost their overall Yelp ratings. As any…

The "Yelp Of Weed": Leafly And Other Marijuana Startups Hope To Gain As Feds

- 9 hours ago @ fastcompany.com: Ask investors about emerging trends in technology, and they might mention wearable devices, the connected home, mobile payments, even Bitcoin. But more often than not, they're glossing over cannabis, a multibillion–dollar industry that's only gaining momentum with varying degrees of legalization in 21 states and the District of Columbia. It's…

New places to eat in Milwaukee with help from Yelp!

- 3 days ago @ sbwire.com: Yelp, Inc. (NYSE:YELP) an online urban city guide that helps people find places to eat, shop, drink, relax, and play based on the informed opinions of a community of locals in the know is currently down (-0.64%) on 1,795,276 shares traded after Yelp ...- 1 week ago @ investorplace.com: While Yelp…

Daily Search Forum Recap: October 18, 2013

- 1 day ago @ seroundtable.com: A common issue I see with the Google results are the number of Yelp results a Google search can return for a local type of keyword phrase. It has been going on for well over a year. I even wrote about it when discussing Google's domain diversity . One webmaster…

Los Angeles: Goat-Stew City, U.S.A.

- 1 week ago @ dailybreeze.com: Craig Martin, owner of Cafe 50's in West Los Angeles, says some consumers are using Yelp as a weapon. He and other business owners are not exactly happy with the way the social media website works. (Photo by DAVID CRANE/LOS ANGELES DAILY ...- 2 days ago @ seroundtable.com: A common issue I…