July 29, 2008 | In: Local Search
I was reading a few articles about CUIL the "next great thing" in search engines. As pointed out in this article by the Local SEO Guide, a lot of the searches you make with CUIL return some rather interesting results. I think the most interesting is...
July 24, 2008 | In: Local Search, theSUGGESTR
theSUGGESTR Integrates with OpenTable theSUGGESTR.com has always focused on giving you personalized suggestions using our unique suggestion algorithm. Now we take things one step further with our partnership with OpenTable. Now after we suggest a...
July 21, 2008 | In: Collaborative Filtering, Local Search, theSUGGESTR
Beyond Search is Suggestion In our previous posts we discussed how the lack of personalization and lack of incentives for a review to be honest and fair, reduced the value of local search reviews by themselves. At theSUGGESTR.com we've decided to use a...
July 18, 2008 | In: Local Search, theSUGGESTR
In our post yesterday we talked about the lack of personalization in local search and how that is one of the major weaknesses in many local search sites. Another flaw in many local search sites is that many of the reviews come from people with various...
July 16, 2008 | In: Collaborative Filtering, Local Search, theSUGGESTR
What's Wrong with Local Search? The local search market has become saturated with sites that basically do the same thing. They allow users to comment on places, give them ratings, sometimes tag them and if your lucky provide additional data that is...
July 9, 2008 | In: Website Marketing, theSUGGESTR
Local suggestion site theSUGGESTR.com is holding a contest as part of its re-launch that will grant $50.00 worth of Perk Points* to the user who earns the most points between now and August 17th 2008. Points can be earned by just rating places on the...
July 6, 2008 | In: theSUGGESTR
Similar to how we added a map for Guy Fieri's Diner's DriveIns and Dives, we've done the same for the places visited by Rachael Ray on her show $40's a Day. Now you can quickly see if your near any of Rachael's suggested eats. As we did with Guy's...