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Developers of location-based apps just got access to Google’s Zagat reviews
DigitalGoogle announced Friday that the Google Places data it makes available to app developers will now include Place Summaries, which are hand-curated reviews of the places and businesses listed on Google. This means high-quality information from Google such as Zagat reviews can be easily included in location-based apps. As a Google Maps user, I’m excited [...]
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Google Plus tries another angle to attract reviews: free goodies
Digital» Get your daily dose of Skift: subscribe to our newsletter, RSS, Twitter or Facebook. It isn’t easy catching up to Yelp’s and TripAdvisor’s huge leads in user reviews so Google was handing out cups and Zagat city guides yesterday to people at the Prudential Center mall in Boston if they would write restaurant and shopping reviews for Google+. Passersby would sit down, [...]
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Google begins adding Frommer’s reviews to Google Plus — minus the Frommer’s credit
DigitalGoogle closed its deal with Wiley to purchase Frommer’s three months ago. At the time, it was not clear how the search giant would integrate the brand into its offerings. The retention of guidebook editors and its custom-content team, and layoffs of the digital staff pointed toward a continuation of a guide product of some [...]
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Foursquare improves its local search as it takes on Yelp and Google’s Zagat
DigitalFoursquare isn’t checking out of check-ins, but it is expanding into local and social search as it takes on companies such as Yelp and Google’s Zagat. Foursquare made moves today on Foursquare.com, where it added a search box, and earlier this month in its iPhone app, where it enhanced its Explore tab. Foursquare described the [...]
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One year after buying Zagat, Google pushes out its first free Android dining app
DigitalGoogle just gave the old-school dining guide Zagat, which it acquired last September, a brand new (and free) Android app. The new app is available for free and, according to Google, was “re-built from the ground up.” The old paid Zagat app for Android has been discontinued and will stop functioning on October 15, 2012. [...]
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Zagat’s London restaurant picks are tailor-made for the expense account set
DigitalThe famously crowdsourced Zagat guides have just issued their 2013 edition: if their most highly-starred entries are anything to go by, I am inclined to think that their typical respondent must be a male, 50-something city bigwig with an expense account the size of Mars. Take Le Gavroche at no 3 for food. Michel Roux’s [...]
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Yahoo taps Google Local’s leader Marissa Mayer for CEO after clandestine search
DigitalSource: Skift Author: Dennis Schaal As Yahoo’s new CEO, Marissa Mayer, moves to the head of the line on her first day on the new job today, Google loses one of the key players who orchestrated its acquisition of Zagat last year. In fact, Mayer, hired by Yahoo as CEO in a move predicted by [...]
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9 sexiest restaurant bathrooms in the U.S.
DestinationsFrom LA to Vegas to DC, there’s no shortage of racy, funky, quirky comodes spicing up restaurants around the U.S. Click through the slideshow below to scope out some of the most noteworthy picks.
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Zagat airport restaurant ratings could be coming to Google
TransportRoad warriors killing time and counting their miles at the gate may soon be able to trot out their inner foodie as Zagat, which is now owned by Google, is currently soliciting user ratings and reviews of restaurants at major U.S. airports. If you are waiting for a flight at Boston’s Logan Airport and pondering [...]
