http://officialblog.yelp.com/2012/06/yelp-to-power-bing-local-search.html
It is official. Days after Google's new rating and review system came into existence, search giant and competition Bing is now boosting their search results with Yelp's reviews. Yelp is big, and reviewers on yelp are growing everyday. Yelp is now present in many countries just like Google. This move would be seen as a step forward that Microsoft is definitely not out of the game, yet. But will yelp help Bing become a better search engine and gain some of the market share? Too soon to predict that. Since there has been so much talk about reviews and ratings, it makes one wonder how many reviews and ratings and word of mouth companies will come into existence as this space is clearly at its infancy.
It is official. Days after Google's new rating and review system came into existence, search giant and competition Bing is now boosting their search results with Yelp's reviews. Yelp is big, and reviewers on yelp are growing everyday. Yelp is now present in many countries just like Google. This move would be seen as a step forward that Microsoft is definitely not out of the game, yet. But will yelp help Bing become a better search engine and gain some of the market share? Too soon to predict that. Since there has been so much talk about reviews and ratings, it makes one wonder how many reviews and ratings and word of mouth companies will come into existence as this space is clearly at its infancy.
