Archive for the ‘Local Search’ Category
Thursday, July 24th, 2008
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 great restaurant for you (and just for you), you can quickly and easily ...
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Monday, July 21st, 2008
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 technique called collaborative filtering to provide ...
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Friday, July 18th, 2008
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 motives, and little ...
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Wednesday, July 16th, 2008
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 useful about a local business. While this ...
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Tuesday, April 29th, 2008
In order to better reflect our core value as a site MyFriendSuggests.com has renamed itself theSUGGESTR.com. The primary reason for this was to better reflect that our service provides you suggestions. While we will maintain our friend network functionality we wanted to emphasize that even without a friend network theSUGGESTR.com ...
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Thursday, April 24th, 2008
As Mashable and Screenwerk's blog reported, Yahoo Local has improved its mapping functionality allowing user's to move a big blue circle around the map and have the site automatically make changes to their search results. I admit the UI is pretty slick. However I think it is another ...
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