Today's Google betrayal

Should we be concerned that each day seems to bring more evil from Google? Or, that each day, these betrayls are conveyed to us by someone who speaks as if they are straight out of Information Retrieval?

Probably both.

Today's example of Do Evil? Yelp is banished to Siberia:

Regarding the presentation of Yelp review snippets, neither of us was happy with the data as it appeared, so we reclassified results from Yelp while we reviewed our options. This means that, for the time being, Yelp pages may not appear as review snippets in Place page results, though relevant results from Yelp will continue to appear in the “more about this place” section, which shows pages about a given location. We are working with Yelp to more intelligently crawl and present results from their site.

Rage against the machine, dear reader.