Comments on: Yahoo Overhauls Its Local Pages; Downplays Business Reviews

By: Jesse

Jesse — Fri, 15 Apr 2011 03:44:20 +0000

Yahoo Local has been nothing short of a nightmare for the bar/music venue I run. The events listed are drawn upon from a site called Upcoming. If somebody sets up a basic profile, they can create events at YOUR establishment… and you have NO recourse to do anything about it (outside of sending a message to the person who posted it). The people at Upcoming are not willing to help. Thank you Yahoo for holding my venue hostage with misinformation.

By: Joseph Tartakoff

Joseph Tartakoff — Thu, 09 Dec 2010 21:21:07 +0000

Thanks for the feedback. We’re working to change the “reactions” feature.

– Joe Tartakoff

By: FedUpTwo

FedUpTwo — Thu, 09 Dec 2010 03:04:05 +0000

Why take up so much of the page with Twitter responses that are all just links back to the story? There’s not much value in 20 reactions that all read the exact same repeated words of the headline. Pretty lame. As far as Yahoo’s local reviews of businesses goes, I’ve had clients ask how they can opt out of such things due to prior bad experiences. Actually, most people commenting on those things are either trashing the businesses, with or without justification, or spamming the pages with unrelated comments. Trouble is, getting anything resembling decent customer service from Yahoo is near impossible if you’re an actual customer of theirs. If you’re not paying them, they won’t really help you at all, even though they are the ones that caused the problems, in their attempts to do invasive target marketing from 7,000 miles away without ever bothering to understand those affected by it.