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Obviously, because the sites are based on decisions made by one person who is not a web design expert. But that's okay, there are ways around that problem for t
by angdis 16y ago
Obviously, because the sites are based on decisions made by one person who is not a web design expert. But that's okay, there are ways around that problem for the restaurant-goer: yelp.com provides a useable interface, socially vetted, and normalized so that places can be compared. I hardly bother with the restaurant's site anymore, they're all on yelp.
- jshen 16y agotrue, but it makes it hard for those of us working on local search sites to crawl their sites too :/
- byoung2 16y agoLook into the Factual API for restaurants to solve this problem.
- jshen 16y agoit looks like most of your data came from crawling us (yellowpages.com)
- angdis 16y agoOh, you mean "web-crawl". With restaurants, its much better to "physically crawl", some of the really good hole-in-the-wall places, I think, would be terrible at self-categorization. I think its much better for restaurants to list themselves with a service like "yelp" or "open-table" or even the local city paper than to try to make anything more than a bare-bones website.
- jshen 16y agoyou should always own your online presence.