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| Yelp Adding Tool To Make It Easier To Find Black-Owned Businesses |
| 2020-06-07 |
| I wonder if this is another one of those 4chan trolls? 'Cuz I don't think that this will have the effect that they are hoping for. Get ready to hear the phrase "Yelp-lining". [Mashable] Yelp co-founder and CEO Jeremy Stoppelman announced that the app will launch a searchable attribute so businesses can identify themselves as black-owned, making it easier for customers to find them. The attribute will be opt-in so only businesses who want to proclaim they're black-owned can do so. Stoppelman explained that in the past week, Yelp saw 25x increase in the amount of searches for black-owned business across a variety of industries compared to this time last year. Yelp's Curation team will create Collections of black-owned businesses across the country in the meantime before the tool is ready to launch in two weeks. If businesses want to let customers know they're black-owned in-person, Yelp created black-owned business decals in February 2020 for Black History Month. In addition to this new feature, the Yelp Foundation will donate $500,000 to the Equal Justice Initiative and NAACP Legal Defense Fund. The foundation also moved up their matching cap to $10,000 and will double match employee donations to a variety of black organizations such as Black Futures Lab. |
| Posted by:charger |
| #4 Something tells me, this might not work out as they had intended indeed. |
| Posted by: bbrewer126 2020-06-07 14:14 |
| #3 stickers: little yellow stars for Jews, little afros for blacks, I'm sure there's already little rainbows for LGBTQWTFBBQ |
| Posted by: Bob Grorong1136 2020-06-07 08:11 |
| #2 How about one which identifies BLM supporters so I can avoid them? |
| Posted by: CrazyFool 2020-06-07 01:42 |
| #1 I wonder if this is another one of those 4chan trolls? One could make the case that the multiple lunatic constituencies of the Democratic party are all the result of successful 4chan trolling campaigns. The #GoBaldForBLM trend looks to be the latest 4chan op. |
| Posted by: SteveS 2020-06-07 00:23 |