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Friday, January 16th, 2009
We are separating out our posts related to our website theSUGGESTR.com. The new blog we'll be hosted on theSUGGESTR.com domain and will focus on updates and annoucnments pertaining to theSUGGESTR.com. This blog will continue to look at a variety of technology and internet related topics and will host any spin-off ...
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Tuesday, January 13th, 2009
After the past few days putting together our first screencast for theSUGGESTR.com (you can find it here). I was really disappointed when I uploaded it to YouTube and found my video was quite blurry. After doing some research and re-rendering the video with a ton of different settings I gave ...
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Sunday, August 17th, 2008
We've added a few new features to our site, theSUGGESTR.com
Improved display of restaurant details. Now you can quickly and easily see the average opinion about the service, food, drinks, quality, etc, of a restaurant.
Added Cost to our restaurant details. See how expensive a restaurant is before you go!
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Saturday, August 9th, 2008
Now you can keep up to date on the latest things going on over at theSUGGESTR.com by following us on Twitter.Share This
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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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Wednesday, July 9th, 2008
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 site and inviting friends. What's ...
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Sunday, July 6th, 2008
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 suggestions, ...
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