Wednesday, June 18, 2014

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Yandex Launches recommendations City

Yandex Launches recommendations City


The largest Russian search engine Yandex today launched new City, with which the company hopes to market local recommendations and reviews. By their logic City is a lot like the popular western service recommendations Yelp. Yandeks.Gorod allows you to select the organization in any city of Russia. Users can search for them by popularity, location and other parameters.

"When we need to choose any institution, we usually ask for advice from friends. However, they can not always help simply because of lack of experience. On Yandeks.Gorode you can choose the organization, relying on the experience of many people, - says the head of service Cyril Votyakov. - Later Yandeks.Gorod will solve all the problems associated with organizations until reservations or write for a haircut.

In Moscow, St. Petersburg and partly in several cities, this functionality is already available, so far only in the web version. " It follows from the description of the service, at Yandeks.Goroda now the biggest base of reviews in Russia. Their transfer service about 70 partner sites. Yandex analyzes reviewed with the help of technology to extract facts from the text and the web version of the service shows the most informative fragments. For organizations with enough reviews Yandeks

Gorod rating shows. It is calculated based on many factors and is protected from cheating. uses a new service organizations Yandex, as well as information provided by partners. To attract new customers, companies themselves can add information about yourself to the database Yandex. They will be available not only on Yandeks.Gorode, but also in finding, on the maps, mobile applications and Yandex Navigator.
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