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Yahoo Search Integrates Citysearch and Zagat - Slowly Gaining Market Share Again?
ReadWriteWeb — Yahoo's SearchMonkey platform allows publishers to easily write applications that integrate structured data from their own sites into Yahoo's search results. Most of these applications still have to be turned on explicitly by the user, but Yahoo has also started to integrate some of them into its regular search results. Today, Yahoo turned on results from the Citysearch and Zagat SearchMonkey applications for all users. Sponsor While Google tends to integrate data from its own products like Google Finance, Images, or ...

Yahoo! Search rolls out ‘Citysearch, Zagat, SearchMonkey’ with ‘Yelp, Yahoo! Local and Yahoo! Shortcut’ - Enhanced Results
D' Technology Weblog — Yahoo! Search launched Citysearch, Zagat SearchMonkey applications for all users, together with the Yelp, Yahoo! Local enhanced results, as well as Yahoo! Shortcut for faster and more intuitive local businesses search. Citysearch’s app provides ratings, hours of operation, addresses and phone numbers for millions of restaurants directly on the search results page. It also includes deep links to each restaurant’s profile, user-generated ...

Yahoo's Openness To Search
WebProNews Feed — [image] The Right Step to Get Back in the Game? Yahoo announced that they have integrated a couple of applications from their SearchMonkey project into everyday search results for users of the Yahoo search engine. The two integrated apps are from Citysearch and Zagat , which Yahoo intends to use for improved local search results along with Yelp and its own Yahoo Local results. Citysearch Results on Yahoo SearchMonkey is Yahoo Search's open platform, which allows developers and site owners to make results more useful and relevant on a personalized basis. ...

Dining out with iPhone: Zagat and OpenTable hit the App Store
AppleInsider — By AppleInsider Staff Published: 04:15 PM EST The calls of iPhone-wielding foodies have been answered. In the last two weeks, the App Store has seen the addition of the two premier dining resources for U.S. residents -- Zagat, the de facto restaurant rating guide, and OpenTable, the real-time online reservation service. We take a closer look at both. Zagat For decades, the Zagat Survey has been amongst the most respected and relied upon resources for diners looking to make an educated decision on where to plan that special occasion or spend their hard-earned cash for an evening out on the town. ...

HOW TO: Find Your Way Around Any New City
Mashable! — Shana Glickfield is Director of Strategic Communications at Amplify Public Affairs and guides both locals and tourists around Washington, DC, through her blog, DCConcierge.com. Adding an extra day to that conference in Austin? Visiting New York City for the weekend again? Checking out Rome for the first time ever? Whether you want to hit the local hotspots or knock those tourist must-sees off your bucket list, these online and mobile tools are your surefire secret weapons. Planning Ahead When it comes to finding the best ...

Zagat on iPhone: "A disappointment" die-hards will still "love"
iPhone Approll — (Credit: CNET) Despite being a fan of Zagat's restaurant surveys, I've never been overly impressed with the mobile applications for Windows Mobile Smartphone and PocketPC, BlackBerry, and Palm. Regrettably, Zagat To Go '09 for the iPhone ...

Zagat on iPhone: "A disappointment" die-hards will still "love"
Webware.com — (Credit: CNET) Despite being a fan of Zagat's restaurant surveys, I've never been overly impressed with the mobile applications for Windows Mobile Smartphone and PocketPC, BlackBerry, and Palm. Regrettably, Zagat To Go '09 for the iPhone ...

OpenTable Makes an IPO Reservation
Screenwerk — Yesterday OpenTable filed an S-1 to go public and there was a lot of commentary. From the S-1: We initially focused on acquiring a critical mass of local restaurant customers in four metropolitan areas: Chicago, New York, San Francisco and Washington, D.C. These markets ...

Zagat Dives into Local HealthCare Ratings With WellPoint/Anthem
Kelsey Group Blogs — Zagat, which publishes consumer reviews and guides for restaurants, nightlife, hotels and attractions, has licensed out its name and reviewer system to WellPoint, which will publish Zagat-branded health reviews for its WellPoint and Anthem BlueCross customers, reports The New York Times. The product extension for Zagat, which has local guides in major cities around the world, is the first rollout of a broad licensing deal that Zagat made in January 2008 with WellPoint (which owns Anthem), Google, Priceline.com and Diageo, the liquor ...

TKG Data and Analysis: A Weekly Recap
Kelsey Group Blogs — Here is a recap of posts from last week, in case you missed any. Click below to read each post in full. Local.com Revamps Site; Profitability Expected by E.O.Y. Local.com has made its first substantive changes to the site in over a year. CEO Heath Clarke says the changes make it easier to find all the varied content on the local portal. It will also make it easier for the site to add more data to profiles and incorporate user generated content, such as reviews, which the site has already been generating. (read ...

LastMinute.com and Zagat Release ‘nru’
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Place Pages: Google Launches Rival to Yelp
Mashable! — ... and Zagat. Interestingly enough, Google Maps doesn’t seem to be pulling information from Yelp, nor does it need to. The aggregation of information covers everything from hours of operation to a restaurant’s price range. ...

ZAGAT.mobi Integrates Twitter
SolSie.com — ZAGAT.mobi Integrates Twitter image Zagat Survey, known as the "burgundy bible," Zagat Survey is the trusted source for information about where to eat, drink, stay and play around the globe, has just announced a new Twitter integration unique to its mobile website. Available on any web-enabled mobile device, ZAGAT.mobi is first in the food and travel space to give users access to the latest tweets about a chosen restaurant. In addition to offering its trusted guidance to consumers wherever and whenever they need it, Zagat’s new beta Twitter integration captures relevant tweets with ...