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People's reviews get filtered because the user doesn't have human-identifiable data - multiple reviews, friends who use yelp, a picture, recent logins, etc.

Find me any business that complains about this extortion, their filtered reviews are 99% from people who've used yelp once and never logged in again.

On the other hand, here's a Harvard Business School study debunking this myth:

http://harvardmagazine.com/2011/10/hbs-study-finds-positive-...

asdfologist2• 12 years ago

What? That article has nothing to do with the subject of the myth.

debt• 12 years ago

This is why Yelp should kill two birds with one stone and just open source both their filtering algorithm and their rating algorithm. This would cause more engineers to want to work at Yelp and stop this PR fiasco where people think Yelp is gaming the system.

With the algo's out in the open we all can finally move on from this "extortion" rumor.

imaginenore• 12 years ago

The prizes are ridiculously low.

Netflix did it right.

Stop being so greedy, Yelp.

minimaxir• 12 years ago

Note that the prizes are only for students.

Houshalter2• 12 years ago

There are a lot of Kaggle competitions with similar prizes. Netflix is an outlier.

ep1032• 12 years ago

5k to help yelp? please.

TheAlchemist• 12 years ago

Extremely low indeed. Most Kaggle competitions have higher prizes.

Btw, anybody knows if there is somewhere a list of those type of contests ?

general_failure• 12 years ago

5000$ is ridiculously low.

btbuildem• 12 years ago

Wow that's a tiny carrot to dangle, Yelp.

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