Woah - it's been a while, once again. We've made tons and tons of little changes to the site. A few of them are really cool - for example we added a little graph showing user ratings over time. A typical type of business where that is fun is the new Hot Super Popular Club that gets rave reviews for a few months and then worse and worse reviews (until it closes). :-) Another widget we added is showing the relative ratio of bad reviews vs good reviews - answering questions like "is this place just average (boring!) or are people passionately both loving and hating it". You can see them both on for example,     http://www.yellowbot.com/the-ivy-los-angeles-ca.html

Many of the changes we've done are roll-your-eyes boring, but such is the world of incremental development. :-) One of the roll-your-eyes-boring changes is adding advertisement on a few of the pages to a fraction of the users (chosen at random). If you hate ads and you are getting them, then you can turn the "ads experiment" off by going to      http://www.yellowbot.com/?set_exp=ads:0 (But don't tell our accountant that we told you that. ;-) )

We also added driving directions, a much requested feature. Just click on the "map" tab on a business listing.

As you might have seen on the bugs forum there's still some issue with printing them in some browsers - we'll get to the bottom of that soon. In the last month and a half we've also been answering hundreds of emails from you guys and I can confidently say that yes, a better support system is being implemented so we can help you better! Thanks again for trying out our site!
Update: Some users asked if they could see how the site works with the ads - so I wrote up instructions on how to do that too.

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