Yelp (YELP -6.9%) has sold off as Facebook (FB -2%) shows off Graph Search; investors seem to to...

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corte33 Comments (79)
 
Obviously word of mouth is the best kind of advertising. YELP's rating system is not honest, as many small business owners will attest. Paying to have your business rated 5 stars is misleading and fraudulent.
15 Jan, 02:08 PM Reply Like

jgschuster Comments (15)
 
This shouldn't have much impact short or long term, as developing the whole map and graph will, as claimed, take years, and, by then, it is likely the privacy concerns and other steps Facebook has taken will drive users away. When Facebook loses novelty value, like MySpace did, it won't matter.
15 Jan, 02:40 PM Reply Like

Trainer Comments (77)
 
Yelp will continue to be a roller coaster ride as more sophisticated competitors take market share. However, this concern about FB is merely a head fake compared to the bigger problems with Yelp's overall business model that will ultimately send it into the dumpster.
15 Jan, 03:40 PM Reply Like

positivethoughts Comments (1319)
 
Facebook will be nothing in 10 years. It has no moat.
15 Jan, 07:08 PM Reply Like

chriff Comments (26)
 
Though I would agree that they could be wiped out by the next new thing, the fact that everyone and their mom (literally) uses Facebook is in fact something of a moat. If you want an example, just look at Google +: plenty of money and brand recognition, yet completely failed because people realized that everyone else is on Facebook.
15 Jan, 11:03 PM Reply Like

positivethoughts Comments (1319)
 
Facebook provides no value except a way for people to watch what others are doing and try to impress their friends by putting the most on their page or wall. It's highschool all over again

Think of how little Amazon actually reports in profit and they are the biggest e-commerce site in the world. Compare facebook, which does basically nothing except create a 'hangout' and it is easy to see that Facebook will fall into nothing.
16 Jan, 09:31 AM Reply Like

1mp1r3t4 Comments (328)
 
Bing as a back-up. Did everyone catch this revelation? Mr. Softee was slowly working behind the scenes to swipe market-share away from the mighty behemoth. FTC or not, the empire is losing ground to the waking giant. Kah-Ching!
16 Jan, 07:54 AM Reply Like