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
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
Marketplace. Last year the wall street journal called the decline of europe as a force in World Affairs the mostn consequential shift of the last 100 years but there is some truth in that, since world war ii the military influence of europe has certainly declined. It is also true that europeans, growth has not compared favorably with that of the United States or for example, with china or india. Of course, efforts to maintain an Economic Union within europe have been more, gated lately but professor bradford sees things divinely and in her new bookro e brussels effect the European Union rules the world is here and back there and you must have a copy. Professor bradford argues that the eu remains a critically important economic superpower. She makes the case very persuasively. He continues to wield a unilateral power in regulating their market and that is a phenomenon that they call the brussels effect. What does it mean . Many, many examples, eu shapes policies in areas for data privac
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Good evening. Welcome and thank you so much for being here. My name is kevin butterfield, director of the library at mountvernon its my pleasure to invite you , to welcome you, not to welcome you because youve already come, welcome you to our first michelle lecture. Within days of leaving the presidency of the United States toward washington was entertained at gatsbys tavern in alexandria. Posted by the mayor, and as large a company to partake as we have ever seenin this town on any occasion , someone n reported. Its a remarkable moment in march 1797 for many reasons to not least of which was the group offered a toast of the constitution to the president , to the Vice President , to the congress and then to our illustrious neighbor. He truly had retired from Public Service. His words and response are ones that i think about often. No wish in my retirement of seeing our country happy and i can entertain no doubt of it being show all of us as citizens. The included equation to. It was as