Website via the app but its north of 100 Million People and then we have over two and a million reviews that have been submitted. Host how do you make money . Guest yelp not unlike services with google it is a vertical Search Engine that basically if i do a search for a dentist in san diego there are a handful of dentists who are paying to basically have a sponsored clearly labeled as such link that lives above the organic search results and therefore they get more discovery of their business and more patients coming through the door. Host mr. Lowe, you are the senior vp for Public Policy so we have you on the communicators to talk about Public Policy issues and in a recent testimony in the senate you are quoted as saying quote, google has conditioned consumers to expect for the best and most relevant results from around the web even though they no longer were by doing so but google physically demoted non google results even if they contained information with Higher Quality scores than
A page out of the bush administrations post 911. 00 playbook and is looking to decimate our legal and Constitutional Rights under cover of National Catastrophe politico is now reporting that according to recently uncovered documents submitted by the d. O. J. To congress that the Justice Department has proposed that Congress Grant the attorney general power to ask the chief judge of any District Court to pause Court Proceedings whenever the District Court is fully or partially closed by virtue of any Natural Disaster civil disobedience or other emergency situation. As norman l. Reimer executive director of the National Association of criminal defense lawyers correctly notes that means you could be arrested and never brought before a judge until they decided that the emergency or the civil disobedience is in fact over and that decision my friends may never come as weve learned from the u. S. Congress is continued obedience to reauthorizing the pay authorizing the patriot act and the Nati
A report that says experts warn School Closures could leave children at risk of exploitation ill be joined by a Community Campaigner. Welcome to r. T. The government has implemented long term measures across the United Kingdom in response to the ongoing Coronavirus Crisis but with no clarity on essential work and no help so far for the self employed many continue to travel flouting rules on social distancing on to u. K. Shouted at the staff who joins me now with the latest how the shot is so as we heard last night an extraordinary announcement by the Prime Minister about our people following the rules well none of us have had a message quite like it but of course the Coronavirus Crisis is now a situation that the United Kingdom has never faced before and thats why Boris Johnson has described the United Kingdom as in a state of National Emergency of course the Prime Minister last night initiating a lockdown scenario he felt he had no other option but the public arent exactly listening t
Weeks of this pandemic is. Revealing yes revealing you see because its in times of great stress obstacles and fear that often show us who we really are especially who are chosen leaders really are like us congressman richard burr who in his position of Senate Intelligence Committee Chairman heard the news of the impending pandemic before the rest of us and chose to save his own ass sets while selling our physical and financial safety up the river or what about the United States department of justice who instead of seeking to help protect all of us is instead taking a page out of the bush administrations post 911. 00 playbook and is looking to decimate our legal and Constitutional Rights under cover of National Catastrophe politico is now reporting that according to recently uncovered documents submitted by the d. O. J. To congress that the Justice Department has proposed that Congress Grant the attorney general power to ask the chief judge of any District Court to pause Court Proceedin
Host this week on the communicators we want to introduce you to luther lowe who was Senior Vice President for Public Policy for for a site cd yelp. What exactly is yelp and what do you do it . Guest thank you so much for having me on today, peter. Its a pleasure. Yelp is a website and piping the consumer application that allows people to connect with great local businesses. It is a service that empowers and protects consumers, allows people to discover great local gyms, and a way for consumers to warn fellow consumers its not such a great business. Host how many visitors a month do you have . Guest to be not how you want to break it out, theres folks that access it via mobile web, via the website, via the app. Its north of 100 Million People and then we have over 200 million reviews that have been submitted over the course of our life. Host how do you make money . Guest not unlike service like google, it is a vertical Search Engine. Basically if i just search for for a dentist in san d