Google Adds Place-Ranking System, Should Yelp Be Afraid?

cgseo — Tue, 15 Dec 2009 22:35:22 +0000

A few months ago Google rolled out Place Pages with the lofty vision of creating a webpage for every place in the world. In addition to a map-view of local businesses, users can access hours, transit stops, reviews and geo-tagged photos. As of today the company is offering a color-coded ranking system for specific aspects of a businesses' services. The question is, does the new feature mark the beginning of the end for restaurant review sites? Sponsor While Yelp gives reviewers a chance to rank a business on a scale of 1-5 stars and Foodspotting ranks individual dishes, Google's new ranking system aggregates comments from across the web based on specific keywords. At a moments glance, users can quickly view a restaurant's food and service in relation to its ambiance and atmosphere. Even the smallest business with little to no web presence can produce useful results. For example, the comments at San Francisco's El Metate Taqueria was enough to produce a ranking on salsa alone. In late November, ReadWriteWeb covered the launch of Google's map-based coupon program where mobile users can access deals through Place Pages. Coupled with the fact that you can save your search results to your favorite maps, users may find less and less reason to visit location-based review sites. In your opinion can Google oust Yelp and Citysearch as the leader in business reviews? Let us know in the comments below. Discuss

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admin — Thu, 19 Nov 2009 00:57:32 +0000

Ten days after Google's Sidewiki was accused of lifting features from annotation startup Reframe It , the little company is striking back. In a video interview with Reframe It CEO Bobby Fishkin, ReadWriteWeb learned why this 15-person team thinks they've got a fighting shot at besting the search Goliath. Sponsor The idea for Reframe It comes from Fishkin's days at Yale spent pouring over scholarly annotations of Shakespeare. The CEO launched the company to capture this spirit of intelligent discourse and expose it to the wider web community. Today, in addition to sharing Sidewiki's features of basic web annotations and notes, Reframe It also offers enhanced social features such as comment sharing via email, blogs, Twitter, Facebook and Friendfeed. Other interesting features include enhanced privacy settings, comment feeds, embedable widgets, search term tracking and perhaps the most groundbreaking feature - what Fishkin calls "branded community comments". Communities and publishers will soon invite users to contribute to relevant Reframe It conversations in roving groups across the web. One of Fishkin's earliest partners is UK-based financial community

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