Tuesday, April 22, 2008

Web Search for Good Restaurants

Delicious food served gorgeously is so inviting, and a whiff of the aroma wafting is so enticing. Savoring great food is what you expect to get with every visit to the restaurant, but how to find good restaurants. Searching the web in a generic search engine like Google, doesn’t always deliver the perfect restaurant recommendation.

Thanks to Natural Language Processing technology and its use in building vertical search engines; in this context, a restaurant search engine called BooRah is simplifying searches. BooRah is a restaurant guide designed to analyze user-generated content and compile specific scores for food, service and ambience from user sentiments from across the web – blogs, review sites, social networks, wikis.

So far the search engines have been powered by a keyword based technology, which has been making searches hectic with vast amounts of data mixed with a lot of irrelevant search results. But, the use of natural language interface can make search engines more precise in retrieving information.

A restaurants directory is a great place to search restaurants that suit your social occasion. User-generated restaurant recommendations are automatically summarized from a collection of online reviews from bloggers, professional critics and consumers; and this allows consumers to search restaurants based on their personal preferences.

Happy Chowing!!!

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