Delicious food served gorgeously is so inviting, and a whiff of the aroma wafting is so enticing. Savoring great food is what you expect to get with every visit to the restaurant, but how to find good restaurants. Searching the web in a generic search engine like Google, doesn’t always deliver the perfect restaurant recommendation.
Thanks to Natural Language Processing technology and its use in building vertical search engines; in this context, a restaurant search engine called BooRah is simplifying searches. BooRah is a restaurant guide designed to analyze user-generated content and compile specific scores for food, service and ambience from user sentiments from across the web – blogs, review sites, social networks, wikis.
So far the search engines have been powered by a keyword based technology, which has been making searches hectic with vast amounts of data mixed with a lot of irrelevant search results. But, the use of natural language interface can make search engines more precise in retrieving information.
A restaurants directory is a great place to search restaurants that suit your social occasion. User-generated restaurant recommendations are automatically summarized from a collection of online reviews from bloggers, professional critics and consumers; and this allows consumers to search restaurants based on their personal preferences.
Happy Chowing!!!
Friday, April 25, 2008
Do We Need Niche Yelps?
Whatzit that Yelp does? Finds, reviews and talks about what's so great and not so great in our world. Yelp believes it is the ultimate city guide that taps into the community's voice and reveals honest and current insights on local businesses and services on everything. Yelpers are passionate and opinionated influencers who share their experiences with local businesses and services.
User-generated content has gained much popularity in the Web 2.0 world. We’ve begun to trust our friends and peers in finding restaurants, consumer electronics, shopping malls, dentists, or anything at all. People share their real experiences in reviews, blogs. Word-of –mouth marketing has been blended with recommendations and reviews from professionals and users in the review sites to give browsers all the information they need in one go.
Real reviews by real people is fostering a vibrant community of locals who willingly guide other users like them in making their choosing/buying decisions. This is of great help to visitors from other places and travelers. It makes even an unfamiliar place, seem familiar.
But Yelp is just one of the review sites. So that would mean, if you don’t find a listing in Yelp, you got to check other sources. Now, how about a site that has it all and especially just in each particular niche. There’s one for restaurants– BooRah. BooRah’s a vertical search engine that gathers restaurant information for all the major metros in the United States. Boorah database has info that includes 1,000,000 Restaurant Reviews, 225,000 Restaurants, 45,000 Restaurant Menus, 30,000 Restaurant Pictures, 6,000 Discount coupons for various restaurants, 4,000 Restaurants with Online Reservation capability and more.
The system in the restaurant guide uses patent-pending Natural Language Processing technology to generate quantitative scores for domain specific attributes from plain English text, automatic summaries from most relevant user sentiments and enables a highly customizable search based on personal preferences. It automatically summarizes a collection of online reviews from bloggers, professional critics and consumers, and allows consumers to search based on their personal preferences. By capturing the community vibe and social essence of existing online groups, and comparing the results to an individual's search criteria, BooRah delivers unsurpassed relevance with the broadest community reach.
Yelp not just caters to web browsers, but also the Mobile users with advanced applications like Yelp Mobile to find things on-the-go. Yelp’s mobile search service piles up nearly 150 reviews on the users mobile browser. On the other hand, BooRah sends reviews in an easy to read cell phone text message format after doing all the word crunching. Because user reviews are one the best ways to judge a restaurant, as “wisdom of crowd” matters and technology makes you get these reviews on-the-go.
User-generated content has gained much popularity in the Web 2.0 world. We’ve begun to trust our friends and peers in finding restaurants, consumer electronics, shopping malls, dentists, or anything at all. People share their real experiences in reviews, blogs. Word-of –mouth marketing has been blended with recommendations and reviews from professionals and users in the review sites to give browsers all the information they need in one go.
Real reviews by real people is fostering a vibrant community of locals who willingly guide other users like them in making their choosing/buying decisions. This is of great help to visitors from other places and travelers. It makes even an unfamiliar place, seem familiar.
But Yelp is just one of the review sites. So that would mean, if you don’t find a listing in Yelp, you got to check other sources. Now, how about a site that has it all and especially just in each particular niche. There’s one for restaurants– BooRah. BooRah’s a vertical search engine that gathers restaurant information for all the major metros in the United States. Boorah database has info that includes 1,000,000 Restaurant Reviews, 225,000 Restaurants, 45,000 Restaurant Menus, 30,000 Restaurant Pictures, 6,000 Discount coupons for various restaurants, 4,000 Restaurants with Online Reservation capability and more.
The system in the restaurant guide uses patent-pending Natural Language Processing technology to generate quantitative scores for domain specific attributes from plain English text, automatic summaries from most relevant user sentiments and enables a highly customizable search based on personal preferences. It automatically summarizes a collection of online reviews from bloggers, professional critics and consumers, and allows consumers to search based on their personal preferences. By capturing the community vibe and social essence of existing online groups, and comparing the results to an individual's search criteria, BooRah delivers unsurpassed relevance with the broadest community reach.
Yelp not just caters to web browsers, but also the Mobile users with advanced applications like Yelp Mobile to find things on-the-go. Yelp’s mobile search service piles up nearly 150 reviews on the users mobile browser. On the other hand, BooRah sends reviews in an easy to read cell phone text message format after doing all the word crunching. Because user reviews are one the best ways to judge a restaurant, as “wisdom of crowd” matters and technology makes you get these reviews on-the-go.
Where to Dine for Mother’s Day?
Mother’s Day is an occasion to show your mother or the mother of your children, how special they are. Flowers and gifts add brownie points to make her day. To make your mom or wife really special, give them a day off the kitchen. Most people take their mother out to a restaurant on Mother’s Day, than any other day of the year. An occasion like this calls for a special restaurant as well as a special menu.
Find restaurants for the special occasion and make sure you reserve a table or two well in advance; most restaurants have an online reservation facility. Since it’s all planned for the leading ladies of your life, choose a restaurant with a cuisine of their choice. If it’s Mexican that your mom loves, search for the best Mexican restaurant recommendations.
Also have a special gift for mom, which you can present to her in the restaurant (extra surprise). It’ll be great if you can select a restaurant that plays live music. Call the restaurant or inquire online about the restaurant menu, reservations, or anything special that you might need. Do check restaurant reviews and ratings on food, service and ambiance, so you know exactly what the restaurant experience will be like. When it’s a special occasion, you need make sure that the food and place is just right.
Carry more than enough cash or card, so you don’t have to make anyone else pay. After a beautiful and memorable evening, it would be embarrassing to realize that your wallet’s at home. Make sure you have all that you need before you set out for dinner.
Show your mom how much you love her. She really deserves a great dinner on the Mothers Day. Please her with a fine dining experience with great food in a family style restaurant. Make it a memorable experience by adding in a lot of family laughter and chatter. Give your mom a royal treatment. Last but not the least, do take pictures of this occasion to add to the family album.
Find restaurants for the special occasion and make sure you reserve a table or two well in advance; most restaurants have an online reservation facility. Since it’s all planned for the leading ladies of your life, choose a restaurant with a cuisine of their choice. If it’s Mexican that your mom loves, search for the best Mexican restaurant recommendations.
Also have a special gift for mom, which you can present to her in the restaurant (extra surprise). It’ll be great if you can select a restaurant that plays live music. Call the restaurant or inquire online about the restaurant menu, reservations, or anything special that you might need. Do check restaurant reviews and ratings on food, service and ambiance, so you know exactly what the restaurant experience will be like. When it’s a special occasion, you need make sure that the food and place is just right.
Carry more than enough cash or card, so you don’t have to make anyone else pay. After a beautiful and memorable evening, it would be embarrassing to realize that your wallet’s at home. Make sure you have all that you need before you set out for dinner.
Show your mom how much you love her. She really deserves a great dinner on the Mothers Day. Please her with a fine dining experience with great food in a family style restaurant. Make it a memorable experience by adding in a lot of family laughter and chatter. Give your mom a royal treatment. Last but not the least, do take pictures of this occasion to add to the family album.
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