June 20th, 2012

TripAdvisor Aims To Beat Yelp With Social, Revives Restaurant “Local Picks” Facebook App

Local Picks TripAdvisor

Tourists rave about a city’s well-known restaurants and distort their review averages. So today travel site TripAdvisor starts highlighting beloved eateries from people who live nearby in Local Picks, a Facebook app it’s relaunching. Originally released in 2007 but shut down from 2010 until now, Local Picks pulls in reviews of 850,000 restaurants from TripAdvisor, re-sorts them to more heavily… → Read More