Center'd, the Yelp-like site with event-planning tools, thinks that it can solve our weekend conundrums with a new local search service for quickly finding restaurants, attractions, events, and shopping based on your city and style.
The local search service works for members and non-members alike and is initiated when users select their city, choose a style, and pick a category. Styles try to satisfy your particular mood and include kid-friendly, romantic, group friendly, recession buster (ie. cheap), outdoors, and popular, to help you qualify your search for the perfect event or activity.
To power the search service, Center'd is running a custom built language processing program that analyzes conversations happening on site and off. Conversations are then categorized and indexed by activity to allow for proper filtering during the search process.
If you're looking for something to do this weekend and don't want to waste an hour or two, check out Center'd and let us know what you think in the comments.
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