Jenna Wortham

Once, at Thanksgiving, a neighbor wandered in while my cousin Lisa worked on a turkey, shearing meat off its frame and sliding the steaming slices onto a big flowered plate. 'Hey, that's the man's job,' she yelped, in between slurps of her Big Gulp. No one even paused to acknowledge the comment; everyone just laughed and laughed.

American Journalist

Andrew Zimmern

Yelp is - I mean, Yelp's not even good for looking up the restaurant's phone number because, you know, on the site, they just want you to read their reviews and look at their ads. They don't even actually want to give you the information about the restaurant or the menu.

American Critic

Jeremy Stoppelman

Where folks like Google have fallen down is in just putting a little review box up, then closing their eyes and letting the algorithm take care of itself. Yelp is a technology company, but also a company that understands how people want to connect with one another.

American Businessman

Max Levchin

You're going to pull out your phone and try to use whatever is the most appropriate app on your iPhone or your Android device. Yelp saw that very early on. And when we launched the mobile product, we saw immediate growth, and we were stunned.

Ukrainian Businessman

Yelp has been in this business since it really became something worth thinking about in 2004, when the transition started happening from the world of the Yellow Pages to the world of searching online for local information.

Ariel Pink

We're all making castles in the sand, wonderful tapestries, an exquisite corpse. But is it meaningful? No. It's dogs barking. It doesn't mean anything beyond our yelping, at the pain of being alive.

American Musician

John McWhorter

People have been warning us that language was going to the dogs ever since Latin started turning into French. Yet the dogs in question never seem to emerge yelping on the horizon.

American Writer

Robert Burns

Firmness in enduring and exertion is a character I always wish to possess. I have always despised the whining yelp of complaint and cowardly resolve.

Scottish Poet

Diogenes

I am called a dog because I fawn on those who give me anything, I yelp at those who refuse, and I set my teeth in rascals.

Greek Philosopher

Yelp is in a very nice spot: local data, and especially review data, is one of the killer apps on mobile phones.

Use 'yelp' to describe sudden sounds from pain or surprise, not long-lasting sounds.

Pain or Surprise

'Yelp' conveys a strong emotional reaction, often unplanned and spontaneous.

Emotional Reaction

Animals can also 'yelp,' especially when they're hurt or scared.

Not Just Humans

When someone 'yelps,' it's usually an instinctive response, not intentional.

Involuntary Reaction

'Yelping' suggests a sound that happens and ends quickly.

Short Duration

A yelp often has an urgent tone to it, indicating immediate reaction.

Urgent Tone

Use 'Yelp' to refer to the app for rating and reviewing businesses, not people.

Service Reviews

Yelp provides business hours, location and user reviews, useful for making plans.

Business Information

You can use Yelp to share your own experiences with a service or business.

Write Reviews

 but he couldn’t find anything unusual about it. Hoping a cup of tea would help them think, they set the kettle on the fire. Within moments, the metal began to sweat. Suddenly, it sprouted a scrubby tail, furry paws and pointed nose. With a yelp, the salesman recognized the tanuki he’d freed. The salesman was shocked.

The Japanese myth of the...

 There had to be like thirty dolphins and it was mesmerizing. I must have yelped a dozen times, cause every time they came up it was like a squeal of delight. I’ve never been that close with wildlife.

New Zealand's Stunning...

 But farming threatened the land, and the future was all of a sudden bleak. And so the lion roared. But there was no water. And the elephant grunted. But there was no water. And the cheetah yelped,

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Pain or Surprise

Emotional Reaction

Not Just Humans

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