Something that really pisses me off about Yelp and others is that it's now pretty much impossible to figure out where to go. Search Happy Hours on Yelp and you get a bunch of expensive restaurants that might not even be open, not $1 beers. The results are so cluttered with other non-useful data that finding the closest, cheapest, dingiest bar at 5 on a Friday is just not gonna happen.
It's the Citisearch problem. They aren't compiling information any more useful than a review and whatever checkboxes the site has decided they're going to provide. Pure data-entry sites always get swamped under the weight of their content, you have to provide something more than that. As an example, Facebook and Twitter evaded this problem by creating their own ad networks and using the data for revenue rather than just eyeballs on someone else's ad inventory.
Unfortunately in SF $ can apparently mean $15 for a sandwich and says absolutely nothing about the price of their happy hour beer. The thing is that I really don't want similar places, I want to know which places have a happy hour and how much a beer is. More specifically, I want to know the closest place offering dollar beer.
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[ 3.7 ms ] story [ 65.1 ms ] threadMight be solvable with a "find similar" function that lets you put in a bar you like and finds similar listings close to your location.