{"id":8240,"date":"2009-12-21T08:29:45","date_gmt":"2009-12-21T16:29:45","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/198.46.88.49\/?p=8240"},"modified":"2010-05-10T00:16:40","modified_gmt":"2010-05-10T08:16:40","slug":"yelp-gasp-rejects-google","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/198.46.88.49\/electrotech\/yelp-gasp-rejects-google","title":{"rendered":"Yelp (GASP) Rejects Google"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.techcrunch.com\/2009\/12\/20\/yelp-walks-away-from-google-deal-and-half-a-billion-dollars\/?utm_source=feedburner&amp;utm_medium=feed&amp;utm_campaign=Feed%3A+Techcrunch+%28TechCrunch%29&amp;utm_content=Google+Reader\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"alignleft size-full wp-image-8241\" src=\"http:\/\/198.46.88.49\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/12\/yelp.jpg\" alt=\"yelp\" width=\"200\" height=\"200\" srcset=\"http:\/\/198.46.88.49\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/12\/yelp.jpg 200w, http:\/\/198.46.88.49\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/12\/yelp-150x150.jpg 150w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 200px) 100vw, 200px\" \/><\/a>Allow me to present a hypothetical:<\/p>\n<p><em>The<\/em>\u00c2\u00a0jock of\u00c2\u00a0your high\u00c2\u00a0school takes interest in that mildly popular chick in\u00c2\u00a0glee club\u00c2\u00a0who likes to give her opinion on absolutely everything. They flirt openly &#8211; in front of, like, every one &#8211; and their coupledom seems imminent.\u00c2\u00a0Then, suddenly, unexpectedly, <em>unthinkably<\/em> -\u00c2\u00a0glee chick\u00c2\u00a0abandons jock &#8211; and all the popularity and power that comes with him.<\/p>\n<p>Yup,\u00c2\u00a0<a title=\"yelp\" href=\"http:\/\/www.yelp.com\/\" target=\"_blank\">Yelp&#8217;<\/a>s rejection of Google is kinda like that &#8211; except, Google wouldn&#8217;t have dated Yelp,\u00c2\u00a0they would have dominated and completely taken over\u00c2\u00a0Yelp. On the other hand, Yelp didn&#8217;t just reject a loss of independence, they turned down <em><strong>$500 million<\/strong><\/em> too.<\/p>\n<p>The details are still fuzzy as to why Yelp wants to remain an independent single lady &#8211; even\u00c2\u00a0500 million dollars the cheaper. But,\u00c2\u00a0<a title=\"techcrunch yelp rejects google\" href=\"http:\/\/www.techcrunch.com\/2009\/12\/20\/yelp-walks-away-from-google-deal-and-half-a-billion-dollars\/?utm_source=feedburner&amp;utm_medium=feed&amp;utm_campaign=Feed%3A+Techcrunch+%28TechCrunch%29&amp;utm_content=Google+Reader\" target=\"_blank\">the guys at <em>TechCrunch<\/em><\/a> are guessing that another suitor (Apple, Microsoft, etc.)\u00c2\u00a0has swooped in &#8211; making Google&#8217;s original offer less than worthwhile.<\/p>\n<p>That&#8217;s what the kids call a burn.<\/p>\n<p><a title=\"techcrunch yelp rejects google\" href=\"http:\/\/www.techcrunch.com\/2009\/12\/20\/yelp-walks-away-from-google-deal-and-half-a-billion-dollars\/?utm_source=feedburner&amp;utm_medium=feed&amp;utm_campaign=Feed%3A+Techcrunch+%28TechCrunch%29&amp;utm_content=Google+Reader\" target=\"_blank\">Read\u00c2\u00a0the Full Story<\/a>\u00c2\u00a0{TechCrunch}<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Allow me to present a hypothetical: The\u00c2\u00a0jock of\u00c2\u00a0your high\u00c2\u00a0school takes interest in that mildly popular chick in\u00c2\u00a0glee club\u00c2\u00a0who likes to give her opinion on absolutely everything. They flirt openly &#8211; in front of, like, every one &#8211; and their coupledom seems imminent.\u00c2\u00a0Then, suddenly, unexpectedly, unthinkably -\u00c2\u00a0glee chick\u00c2\u00a0abandons jock &#8211; and all the popularity and power [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":12,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6840],"tags":[502,1371,1374,45,2011],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/198.46.88.49\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8240"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/198.46.88.49\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/198.46.88.49\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/198.46.88.49\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/12"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/198.46.88.49\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=8240"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/198.46.88.49\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8240\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":11153,"href":"http:\/\/198.46.88.49\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8240\/revisions\/11153"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/198.46.88.49\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=8240"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/198.46.88.49\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=8240"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/198.46.88.49\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=8240"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}