Yelp goes after Zagat with Bing deal
Yelp is feeding its online reviews of restaurants and other local merchants to Microsoft’s Bing search engine in a move to compete against Zagat ratings on Google.
Beginning Thursday, people using Bing to search for information about neighborhood businesses will be able to see excerpts from Yelp reviews.
The deal between Microsoft Corp. and Yelp Inc. comes two weeks after Google unveiled a new feature that serves up restaurant ratings from Zagat. Google Inc. bought Zagat’s popular rating service for $151 million last year. To attract more people, Google scrapped the online fees that Zagat charged to read its ratings.
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