New Court Ruling Requires Yelp to Surrender User Data
A ruling from a Virginia Court of Appeals has rendered anonymous reviews unprotected, at least in Virginia. The popular online review website Yelp is at the center of litigation regarding the legitimacy of anonymous reviews. On one side is Yelp, whose terms of service explicitly ban users from posting faked reviews that are negative or positive. On the other side are the businesses hurt by these...
Read MoreYelp Lawsuit seeks to get Yelpers paid for reviews
A class action lawsuit filed in California seeks to get Yelpers paid for reviews. The lawsuit claims that Yelp runs a cult like environment and instead of paying the reviewers, it offers them badges, titles such as “Elite”, praise, free liquor and food, and free promotional Yelp attire, such as red panties with ‘Make Me Yelp!’ We spoke to one of the plaintiffs, Lilly Jueng,...
Read MoreYelp Sues Law Firm for Posting Fake Reviews
McMillan Law Group in San Diego has been sued for posting fake reviews on Yelp. McMillan apparently posted several reviews from the same IP address in their office. To their defense they claim that they had invited their clients to a party at their office and asked them to leave reviews from their computers. One of their clients has publicly confirmed this. McMillan also claims that the lawsuit...
Read MoreHas Bing Stopped Honoring Court Orders to Remove Defamatory Content?
Our CEO Pierre Zarokian has written a new article about Bing’s alleged change of heart on removing court-ordered defamatory content from its search engine. Has Bing truly changed its policy? If your online reputation has been tainted, you know how devastating it can be to have defamatory content about you or your company featured on the web for everyone to see. Major search engines such as...
Read MoreBusiness Owners Frustrated with Yelp Reviews at Town Hall Meeting
Recently Yelp held a town hall meeting and invited a few business owners to attend so they can discuss their programs and answer any questions about Yelp Advertising services. However, the meeting backfired and turned out to be a complaint forum from pissed up businesses. The audience got aggressive with their questions and complaints on how their legit reviews get filtered. However, Yelp only...
Read MoreTheDirty loses Reputation Management Lawsuit
TheDirty has lost a lawsuit against Sarah Jones who claimed damaging posts were posted on thedirty.com about her that destroyed her reputation. This is a major victory for the reputation management industry as the judge has allowed the case to go through, while thedirty had claimed immunity due to the Communication Decency Act (CDA) which protects public forums from any liability when 3rd party...
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