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Seit kurzem erst lassen sich über den standortbasierten Check-in-Dienst Foursquare via webbasiertem Feature „Explore“ personalisierte Empfehlungen für Bars, Museen oder sonstige Lokalitäten abrufen. Jetzt können User bei der Wahl eines Restaurants zusätzlich auf die Speisekarten von fast 250.000 Restaurants in US-Großstädten zurückgreifen. Die Daten stammen laut Unternehmensblog vom Start-up SinglePlatform.

Die Speisekarten stehen bislang für das standortbezogene Desktop-Feature Explore sowie auf foursquare.com sowie m.foursquare.com zur Verfügung, die Integration in die Apps soll bald folgen. Neben den Gerichten sieht der User bei vielen Restaurants auch die einzelnen Preise.

Mit der Desktop-Applikation click.to können User nun direkt aus Dokumenten, Kurznachrichten von Twitter, Facebook & Co., E-Mails und anderen Desktop-Anwendungen heraus eine lokale Suchanfrage an suchen.de absetzen. Möglich macht dies die Kooperation zwischen der Axonic Informationssysteme GmbH, die click.to entwickelt hat, und dem Betreiber der lokalen Suchmaschine suchen.de, der Searchteq GmbH. Read the rest of this entry »

As Google receives a good deal of critique for its new personalized internet search, Foursquare has been receiving much positive feedback from its users for its similar direction. The geolocation service has released its “Explore” service, which was previously available on the mobile application, online. Users can immediately begin to discover personally recommended places all over the world under foursquare.com/explore.
Based on the more than 1.5 billion check-ins from the community members as well as numerous tips, users can now receive personalized recommendations for restaurants, bars, museums, or other locations in the vicinity or place of choice, according to the Foursquare blog. The location-based check-in service has implemented artificial intelligence in its search engine: the more a user checks in, the better Foursquare is at finding new locations, according to the post.

“Explore” is not only personalized, but specific: the majority of search engines generate very general results: users searching for “pizza” will get the same list of pizza restaurants, regardless of preference of crust, whether the restaurant could be considered “fast” food, or if the user would rather sit down. The “Explore” tool instead allows users to conduct a full-text search, which helps make the search more specific, so that users only get the results that might be interesting to them, say a pizza restaurant that serves extra crispy crust. But that’s not all: the search can further be reduced in which the user sorts between the categories “Where I haven’t been yet”, “Where I’ve already been”, “Where my friends have been”, or “places offering Foursquare deals” – which are offerings for group check-ins. The geotagging service sees its new web-based feature as a step in the direction of a big idea: “[Foursquare] is always connecting you to the most interesting things nearby, wherever you happen to be in the world.”

Explore is not just an exciting new development, but also means that Foursquare will be joining the local search market – and is already recognizing the need for personalized information.

The Telegate AG has given its online directory 11880.com a facelift: the portal will open with a location-based local search for the correlating city. The new feature is described as being more local, personal, and structured by Kirstin Bergmann in the company’s official blog. Read the rest of this entry »

Microsoft has released its geodata service “Streetside” in Germany as a new feature on its local search engine, “Bing Maps”. Bing Maps has thus become a competitor on the same level of “Google Maps”, which has offered its own panoramic image service “Street View” for about a year. Read the rest of this entry »

About half of all Germans search and purchase Christmas presents online. Nevertheless, about forty percent buy their presents in stores on-the-go – but many users wouldn’t mind having some assistance using location-based services while trying to find the perfect Christmas gift, according to a study from Gelbe Seiten with the market research institution Innofact AG. Just in time for the Advent season, several location-based services have release new services to help users find the perfect gift in local stores. We would like to present two of them: Read the rest of this entry »

Since the beginning of the month, meinestadt.de offers local deal coupons in addition to regional deal guides. Users can find new deals from national coupon platforms like Groupon or DailyDeal, in addition to regional deal offerings in the new “Deals” menu.
After choosing the preferred city, users are directly directed to the latest local deals. For now, there will be about 2,000 deals from the approximately 70 largest cities in Germany, according to a press release. Those who come from smaller cities can see deals within 80 kilometers. In addition, everyone can access the national “online-deals”. These appear automatically under the offering for local deals.

Those who prefer to receive the latest deals in their email can also subscriber to the deal-newsletter.

As of this week, users can now search for organic and eco-friendly retailers in their city by using the website SuchDichGrün.de. The site, currently offered in the beta-version, provides users with a collective of various retailers throughout Germany, which offer an array of organic and/or eco-friendly products. Read the rest of this entry »

The search engine giant’s deal service Google Offers now offers personalized local deals in addition to a wide offering of daily deals. Read the rest of this entry »

The 25 million user strong general interest online portal T-Online.de is now joining the local search bandwagon: as a response to the growing demand for local services and information, the service massively expanded its regional offering at the beginning of October. Users now have access to 346 city and county portals with regional to local news, information, and services available, according to a press release from the Deutsche Telekom, the carrier of the online portal. Read the rest of this entry »