Although Yelp is perhaps best known for its crowd-sourced reviews of restaurants, the website also allows its users to review a wide range of businesses — including professional photographers. As wedding season ramps up, Yelp has revealed its list of America’s top 100 wedding photographers in 2024. Yelp explains that January through March is the … Read more
The experiments found that about 73 percent of about 500 people using that new design clicked results that kept them inside Google’s ecosystem—an increase over the 55 percent who did so when the design Google is phasing out in Europe was tested with a smaller pool of roughly 250 people. Yelp also tested a variation … Read more
An interior view of Farley’s East coffee shop in Oakland, Calif. Image via Yelp user Vincent L. A Bay Area coffee shop and its owners are facing controversy after a viral social media video showed anti-Zionist graffiti in the shop’s restroom. The video, shot by a customer Dec. 3 at Farley’s East on Grand Avenue in … Read more
Fried rice at Jade Palace in Newark, Calif. Jadalliya L./Yelp A longstanding Newark restaurant and community hub for locals is closing on Dec. 21 after 53 years. Reportedly, the owners are simply ready to retire. Jade Palace, located at 36601 Newark Blvd., serves up mostly Cantonese cuisine with the likes of potstickers, fried rice and wonton soup. … Read more
Groups urging the Supreme Court to invalidate Republican-backed social media laws are looking to strike a chord with the justices by bringing forward some familiar — and potent — examples. Next year, the justices are set to decide the constitutionality of laws in Texas and Florida that restrict social media platforms’ ability to moderate content, … Read more
Pomet, at 4029 Piedmont Ave., Oakland, made Yelp’s Best New Restaurants of 2023. Neeracha T. via Yelp Pomet, a farm-to-table restaurant owned by an actual farmer, K&J Orchards’ Aomboon Deasy, opened on Oakland’s Piedmont Avenue in early 2022. This summer, it earned a Michelin green star for its sustainability efforts. The restaurant’s menu varies based … Read more
After 41 years in Nob Hill, cozy French restaurant Rue Lepic quietly closed at the end of October, as first reported by the San Francisco Chronicle (the Chronicle and SFGATE are both owned by Hearst but have separate newsrooms). Rue Lepic is listed as permanently closed on both Google and Yelp, and a new alcoholic … Read more
WASHINGTON: The Justice Department and 38 states and territories on Tuesday laid out how Google had systematically wielded its power in online search to cow competitors, as the internet giant fiercely parried back, in the opening of the most consequential trial over tech power in the modern internet era.In a packed courtroom at the E. … Read more
A #5 at Stable Cafe in Pleasanton Calif., Oct. 5, 2019 Dan C. via Yelp Stable Cafe, a 32-year-old Pleasanton diner operating at the horse racetrack of the Alameda County Fairgrounds, served its final meal on Sept. 8. Esther Hill — cook, waitress, cashier and owner — ran the operation for 32 years. She has decided … Read more
Several of the different slices of pizza at Outta Sight Pizza in San Francisco on March 7, 2023. Douglas Zimmerman/SFGATE The Washington Post recently published an article naming its favorite pizzas around the United States, and not a single Bay Area pizzeria made the list. Even in the California-style pizza category. Blasphemy. Advertisement Article continues … Read more