Yelp Crawler

Yelp!, Inc. Computer Science, 2010-11

Liaison(s): Jason Fennell ’08, Benjamin Goldenberg ’10, Paul Wais ’07, Mike Stoppelman
Advisor(s): Melissa O’Neill
Students(s): David Huie, Sabreen Lakhani, Anatole Paine, Yael Mayer (PM)

Yelp is a review-based online business directory. To construct the most accurate and extensive local guide on the Internet, Yelp would like to use the multitude of business websites available on the Internet. To this purpose, the Yelp Clinic team built a web crawler that leverages machine learning algorithms to identify, examine, and index the content of business websites. The resulting system will be integrated as a feature of Yelp’s search engine.