Yelp is being shady...
I didn't want to believe that Yelp! had bad intentions, but after seeing this, I'm beginning to believe the crap being said about them on the net.
Now I don't care if the reviews are bad, or good, I want to see them all, but if you hide a users post....something is definitely awry here.
I googled a restaurant earlier (ryu of japan austin), and noticed a good review. (http://www.google.com/search?sourceid=chrome&ie=UTF-8&q=ryu+of+japan+austin)
When I click on the first Yelp link (in purple), that review is nowhere to be found on that restaurant listing. (http://www.yelp.com/biz/ryu-of-japan-austin?rpp=40&sort_by=date_desc)
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(my screen wasn't big enough to do a screenshot at full size, so I dropped the text size down and took another screenshot which you'll find at the bottom of the post)
notice the "28 reviews" (google even shows "29 reviews"). Also notice how it goes from 3/28 to 3/26 with no listing in between
Now when I look at the cache, the item does show up: (http://74.125.95.132/search?q=cache:-d9qRs0tdNIJ:www.yelp.com/biz/ryu-of-japan-austin+ryu+of+japan+austin&cd=2&hl=en&ct=clnk&gl=us)
What happened to the post? did she delete it?? no, if you goto her link (http://www.yelp.com/user_details?userid=WlnQ7GnUn7O69OokwailQA) you'll see it's there:
What's also fishy is that when you click on "Link to this Review", it only goes to the Restaurant's Review page, not this specific review.
I tried to give the benefit of a possible "Well, all our servers and databases haven't been completely sync'd yet", but it's already 3 days after the post. If your servers are off by this many days, you need to restructure your syncs or maybe just get a whole new IT team.....but my guess is, Yelp is just being shady and the only issue is management and truth.
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