A couple of months back, Google rolled out Place Pages with the lofty vision of making an internet page for each place in the world. As well as a map-view of local enterprises, users can access hours, transit stops, reviews and geo-tagged photographs. As of today, the company is offering a color-coded ranking system for explicit facets of businesses' services.
The issue is, does the new feature mark the start of curtains for restaurant review sites? While Yelp gives reviewers an opportunity to rank a business on a range of one to 5 stars and Foodspotting ranks individual dishes, Google's new ranking system aggregates comments from across the web primarily based on precise keywords.
At a moments peek, users can instantly view a restaurant’s food and service re its ambiance and atmosphere.
Even the littlest business with little or even no web presence can produce handy results. For instance, the comments at San Francisco's El Metate Taqueria were sufficient to provide a ranking on salsa alone. In late Nov, ReadWriteWeb covered the launch of Google's map-based chit program where mobile users can access deals thru Place Pages. Coupled with the proven fact that you are able to save your search results to your favourite maps, users could find less and less reasons to go to location-based review sites.
