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...
April 24, 2008 | In: Collaborative Filtering
As we've been able to gather more rating data from our site, MyFriendSuggests.com we've been able to run more tests on our unique recommendation algorithm. Our algorithm uniques combines both user based and item based collaborative filtering. Our...