Google just announced an update of the reviews section of Google Places, which essentially separates reviews from sites like Yelp, Zagat, Citygrid and others into separate category, called "Reviews From Around The Web." Places used to just list outside reviews under a "Reviews" section. Now you can click on the Yelp review and be taken to the review on the Yelp page for the establishment. On Places, you'll also see now see a section dubbed ?Reviews from Google Users.?
The big news here is that Yelp reviews are back after a passive aggressive battle between Yelp and Google over whether Google could list Yelp's reviews on Places pages. Yelp has been publicly frustrated by Google?s decision to pump up its Places service with Yelp?s content? without Yelp?s consent.
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