Slog - Comments on You've Gotta Eat Sometime http://slog.thestranger.com/2008/09/youve_gotta_eat_sometime And if you're hungry right now and have no idea where to eat, head on over the www.thestranger.com/dining for over 5,000 reader-submitted reviews. 5,000! That's a lot! So go ahead, trust your fellow Stranger-readers and try something new. Here's just a sample of some of the places currently holding five-star ratings: Cafe Besalu in Ballard, the Other Coast Cafe (with locations both Downtown and in Ballard), Bilbao Tapas Bar in the University District, Chopsticks on Capitol Hill, Hangar Cafe in Georgetown, Shoofly Pie Company in West Seattle (mmm... pie)... There are hundreds of places listed, with thousands of reviews to... Copyright 2008 Thu, 18 Sep 2008 13:53:36 -0800 Thu, 18 Sep 2008 15:16:15 -0800 http://www.movabletype.org/?v=3.34 http://blogs.law.harvard.edu/tech/rss Comment by better site I heard about this site. it's called Yelp.com.

]]> better site http://slog.thestranger.com/2008/09/youve_gotta_eat_sometime#c1145325 http://slog.thestranger.com/2008/09/youve_gotta_eat_sometime#c1145325 Chow Thu, 18 Sep 2008 13:58:30 -0800 Comment by Little Red Ryan Hood Shoofly pie is the best thing to happen in my life ever.

]]> Little Red Ryan Hood http://slog.thestranger.com/2008/09/youve_gotta_eat_sometime#c1145326 http://slog.thestranger.com/2008/09/youve_gotta_eat_sometime#c1145326 Chow Thu, 18 Sep 2008 13:59:43 -0800 Comment by kid icarus Always the shoo-fly pie, never the apple pan dowdy.

]]> kid icarus http://slog.thestranger.com/2008/09/youve_gotta_eat_sometime#c1145345 http://slog.thestranger.com/2008/09/youve_gotta_eat_sometime#c1145345 Chow Thu, 18 Sep 2008 14:07:24 -0800 Comment by Billiard Agreed, @1.

If you're trying to grow search engine traffic for local listings (which I fully support), a good place to start would be to have urls that look like this:

http://www.yelp.com/biz/the-other-coast-cafe-seattle-2

instead of this:

http://thestranger.com/seattle/Location?location=145220&srs

The latter looks like an internal site search result, which Google hates.


]]> Billiard http://slog.thestranger.com/2008/09/youve_gotta_eat_sometime#c1145355 http://slog.thestranger.com/2008/09/youve_gotta_eat_sometime#c1145355 Chow Thu, 18 Sep 2008 14:22:24 -0800 Comment by christopher h @1: That would be true if Yelp's ratings/reviews could actually be trusted. 90% of the reviews I've read are people bitching about shoddy service rather than the taste of food, and most of the best Yelp-user rated restaurants I've visited are awful. Yelp seems to be a highly capricious consumer gripe-fest with little to do with actual taste and substance.

I'm not saying that the Stranger's user food reviews are unimpeachable, but Yelp is hardly something I'd hold up as, "better."

]]> christopher h http://slog.thestranger.com/2008/09/youve_gotta_eat_sometime#c1145375 http://slog.thestranger.com/2008/09/youve_gotta_eat_sometime#c1145375 Chow Thu, 18 Sep 2008 14:41:59 -0800 Comment by Billiard @5: I agree as well.

The point I'm trying to make is that the Stranger's local directory should by all accounts be SLAYING Yelp. I, for one, would love to see that happen.

Unfortunately, as long as basic technology architecture mistakes persist, this directory is dead in the water.

]]> Billiard http://slog.thestranger.com/2008/09/youve_gotta_eat_sometime#c1145416 http://slog.thestranger.com/2008/09/youve_gotta_eat_sometime#c1145416 Chow Thu, 18 Sep 2008 15:08:24 -0800 Comment by burgin99 Is Yelp perfect? No. Is it more comprehensive and useful than a small city's alt-weekly, half-assed, snark-filled site? Oh you betcha.

]]> burgin99 http://slog.thestranger.com/2008/09/youve_gotta_eat_sometime#c1145417 http://slog.thestranger.com/2008/09/youve_gotta_eat_sometime#c1145417 Chow Thu, 18 Sep 2008 15:08:29 -0800 Comment by max solomon mmmm... Other Coast Cafe... Rajun Cajun Sub...

]]> max solomon http://slog.thestranger.com/2008/09/youve_gotta_eat_sometime#c1145441 http://slog.thestranger.com/2008/09/youve_gotta_eat_sometime#c1145441 Chow Thu, 18 Sep 2008 15:16:15 -0800