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malbiniak on Dec 18, 2009 | parent | context | favorite | on: Google In Discussions To Acquire Yelp For A Half B...

you'll never, ever, ever hear me say this ever again: i thought scoble made some interesting points (when he talked about facebook acquiring yelp). http://scobleizer.com/2009/03/26/facebook-is-lucky-it-missed...

but what does google have to gain? extend google maps/local? aren't they already scraping reviews and ratings? screw the "don't be evil," what's in it for them...especially at $500M?

and as a random peanut gallery jab, it kills me how "past the term sheet stage" indicates an 80% probability. isn't anything past .01% "past the term sheet stage?"

jgilliam on Dec 18, 2009 | [–]

Yelp has a lot of relationships with local businesses, something they are trying to grow with AdWords.

They also want the dataset. The current reviews google is crawling are lousy compared to Yelp's.

Raphael on Dec 18, 2009 | [–]

The main purpose of the buyout is to kill competition, IMO.

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