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Podcast: Software Engineering Daily
Episode: Yelp Early Days with Michael Stoppelman
Description: Yelp.com is a crowdsourced review platform focused on restaurants and local businesses. Originally created as an email-based recommendation service, Yelp re-launched in its modern form in 2005. At the time, its focus on user-created reviews and social interactions was fairly novel, and made it stand out from competitors such as Angie’s List and CitySearch. Since then, Yelp has become a worldwide brand, and as of 2021 it has over 171 million reviews on its site.The mid- to-late 2000s represented a time of explosive growth and profound change in the web application space. Industry leaders like Yelp had to...