Archive for the ‘theSUGGESTR’ 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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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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Friday, July 4th, 2008
We've updated our map of restaurants visited by Guy Fieri on his show Diner's Drive-Ins and Dives. You can see all the places he visits on his show and then use some theSuggestr.com's features to see how close your tastes are to Guy's.
One other note, you can also search for ...
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Tuesday, April 29th, 2008
In the process of renaming our website from MyFriendSuggests.com to theSUGGESTR.com I found that most articles on this refer to using mod_rewrite to accomplish the redirect. However for most us Java guys this may not be the way to go. I used URLRewrite to accomplish this name change and have ...
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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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