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June 2, 2011 05:03 am GMT

Google Places Now Borrowing Yelp Reviews Without Attribution In iPhone App

Google Places is at it again, brazenly borrowing reviews from Yelp. But this time it's in their iPhone app and they are not even bothering to link back to Yelp or attribute where they are getting the reviews. Yelp and Google have a love-hate relationship. Yelp loves when its listings and reviews show up in natural search results, but they hate it when Google scrapes their reviews to populate its own local listings in Google Places. This tension between the two has been playing out for a long time with various ups and downs. It's become a running joke. But Google appears to be pushing the boundaries of what is acceptable once again with its mobile app.

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