Yelp Sucks

Everyone has had a complaint about the DMV. Or maybe trash pickup, a pothole that never gets fixed or a streetlight that the city is slow to fix. But those complaints tend are often difficult to channel, and rarely is there an easy way to find out if you're the only one grousing about something.…

Websites like Yelp! have empowered the everyday eater to become their local neighborhood's food critic, praising and damning behind the anonymity of a computer screen. So what do your neighbors have to say on Yelp? Based on Yelp!'s highest-rated star ranking, here are the top 10 restaurants in Hingham. 1. The Square Cafe2. Crow Point Pizzeria3. Burtons Grill 4. Tosca…

Back in 2003, Jeremy Stoppelman and Russel Simmons were in an enviable position. They were junior members of the PayPal Mafia--think Elon Musk, Peter Thiel, Max Levchin. More than that, they had a great idea for changing the way people discovered awesome stuff around them--a site called Yelp--that would capture the way we naturally make…

A look at the Yelp Revenue Estimate. (Credit: Yelp) Yelp has a new tool in place for business owners to gauge the value of its service. The company yesterday announced a new tool, called "Revenue Estimate," that helps business owners determine the amount of revenue they're generating from their Yelp listings. The free tool multiplies…

Yelp released a new tool on Monday that helps small businesses estimate how much revenue they make through the review site. The tool, called the Revenue Estimator, lets local businesses track the number of customer leads from their Yelp profile and provides an estimate for how much revenue the merchant generated from those leads, based…

Yelp announced the launch of a new “revenue estimator” tool, which lets local businesses compare their Yelp-driven business to the national average as found in a recent Boston Consulting Group study. According to that study, local businesses with free Yelp accounts saw $8,000 in annual revenue from Yelp. For advertisers, it was $23,000. This new…