The timeline shows the cumulative number of reviews posted on Yelp since 2009. At the end of 2017, a total of 148 million reviews had been submitted to the local business review and recommendation site, up from 121 million reviews at the end of the previous year.
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The timeline shows the cumulative number of reviews posted on Yelp since 2009. At the end of 2017, a total of 148 million reviews had been submitted to the local business review and recommendation site, up from 121 million reviews at the end of the previous year.
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The timeline shows the cumulative number of reviews posted on Yelp since 2009. At the end of 2017, a total of 148 million reviews had been submitted to the local business review and recommendation site, up from 121 million reviews at the end of the previous year.
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- * "Represents the cumulative number of reviews submitted to Yelp since inception, as of the year end, including reviews that were then being filtered or that had been removed from our platform. As of December 31, 2011, approximately 18 million reviews were available on business profile pages, approximately 5 million reviews were being filtered and approximately 1.8 million reviews had been removed from our platform. We define a review as each individually written assessment submitted by a user who has registered by creating a public profile on our platform."
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- Worldwide
- Survey time period
- 2009 to 2017
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- * "Represents the cumulative number of reviews submitted to Yelp since inception, as of the year end, including reviews that were then being filtered or that had been removed from our platform. As of December 31, 2011, approximately 18 million reviews were available on business profile pages, approximately 5 million reviews were being filtered and approximately 1.8 million reviews had been removed from our platform. We define a review as each individually written assessment submitted by a user who has registered by creating a public profile on our platform."
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