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Friday, December 18, 2009

Money / Teh Internets Today in Headlines That Nobody Would Have Understood 15 Years Ago

Posted by Paul Constant on Fri, Dec 18, 2009 at 1:08 PM

Google In Talks to Buy Yelp.

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I don't know what yelp is so I don't even understand it today.

Posted by Urgutha Forka on December 18, 2009 at 1:14 PM

I was half expecting that....

Posted by Andy_Squirrel on December 18, 2009 at 1:18 PM

I also like "So, is it safe to tweet now?" from CNET.

http://news.cnet.com/8301-13577_3-104182…

Posted by gloomy gus on December 18, 2009 at 1:22 PM

Yelp has herpes. So.

Posted by jackie treehorn on December 18, 2009 at 1:33 PM

sure, but remember, people were really fucking stupid 15 years ago... & not anything like today. we have an apps for that, now. and twitter, ugh.

Posted by pissy mcslogbot on December 18, 2009 at 2:01 PM

I made that comment in a "comment" like 3 months ago (about Google/Twitter).

Any Intellectual Property Rights for Comments?

Posted by JB Weld on December 18, 2009 at 2:12 PM

I really wanted to give this buyout 2 1/2 stars, but it won't let me do a 1/2 star, so I gave it 3.

Posted by Dougsf on December 18, 2009 at 2:29 PM

@6 NONE WHATSOEVER.

Posted by This Was Posted by a Bot on December 18, 2009 at 2:31 PM

Where is this "Talks" place everyone is going to? Is it close to Smegma, Ontario?

Posted by treacle on December 18, 2009 at 2:32 PM

let them have yelp, google will eat everything.

but as w/ twitter and historical tweets:
http://farm3.static.flickr.com/2591/4112…

Someone needs to move forward w/ hysterical Yelps...

waiterrant/the customer is always right are kinda there but, c'mon some of these yelp reviews are cringe and noteworthy in their own right.

Posted by pissy mcslogbot on December 18, 2009 at 2:44 PM

At what point are people going to turn on Google for its Microsoft-like practice of buying up companies to corner every segment of the online marketplace? They seem to be getting a free pass for a lot of questionable activities.

Posted by bigyaz on December 18, 2009 at 2:51 PM

For the same reason Apple gets a free pass on a lot of their practices: Nerds love companies that do business as usual while maintaing the pretense of not doing business as usual.

Posted by laterite on December 18, 2009 at 3:22 PM

Or in other words, "Ooh, shiny!" still goes a long way among otherwise smart folks.

Posted by laterite on December 18, 2009 at 3:26 PM

@11 - It's already begun.

Posted by Dougsf on December 18, 2009 at 3:35 PM

Maybe Yelp can help Google weed out the millions of grotesquely erroneous map entries they've got. I must have spent an hour of my time trying to move the marker for the International District branch of SPL from First Hill (8th Ave) to 8th Ave. S. where it belongs. I started a MONTH ago, and it just got moved today. If you search for "library" in a google map of downtown, you still get inanities like "Orting Library" and "Skykomish Library", dropped there by morons or saboteurs. This bullshit is repeated in hundreds of categories in hundreds of cities around the world.

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