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Foursquare
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Custom search results
Foursquare learns about what you like from the places you go and the searches you make. The app will give you recommendations based on what you like not what other people search for.
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Connects with Facebook and Twitter
Use Foursquare with Facebook and Twitter to see what restaurants and other places your friends recommend. Also get tips from those you follow about places you might not yet know about.
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Follow friends and trusted voices
Foursquare lets you follow your friends and other people that you trust to have great taste in food and places. You can view tips left by the people you follow at the places you go.
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Tripadvisor
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High quantity of reviews
Tripadvisor lists tour options for many of the available attractions. Many of the individual tours have lots of recent reviews so you can get a better idea of what the experience will be like.
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Not usually easy to compare
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Good for food/restaurants
Tripadvisor will usually have the not-to-miss restaurants, even if they can end up being touristy. A good yelp equivalent in non-US countries.
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Reviews can be outdated
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Lack of trust in reviews
There is a lot of incentive for companies to post fake reviews in order to increase their ranking/visibility. Tripadvisor does very little to catch the false reviews, so it's hard to know what's authentic and what isn't.
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Lots of sponsored content
Sponsored content such as sightseeing tours and hotels can clutter up the content users are actually searching for.
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Google Maps
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Offline functionality
You can download offline data per city or parts of cities if you live in an especially large city, but not for states or countries. Points of Interests are generally more relevant & current than the typical stand alone GPS unit.
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No plan-ahead for commuters
Cannot plan trip ahead based on commuter lane.
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Best execution of save location feature
Recent updates have made it so you can label a place instead of being stuck with some address or GPS coordinate and forgetting what it represents. Saved places show as stars and are all on one layer as long as you're logged in. There is also the ability to create maps (parallel to groups) for things you might not want to see or have show up all the time whenever you're using google maps from day to day. This feature is highly helpful for planning, even if you're a person who likes to wing it.
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Not very precise traffic information
Depending on a country information might not be very accurate for traffic.
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Find your parked car
You save the location of your car and easily find it again
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Sometimes takes too long to load
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Accurate mapping
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Saved locations needs online connection and has no visible label
Two negatives about this feature is you have to be online to be able to save a place, but it is stored off line once google map gets on the net and syncs. The other negative is there is no visible label for saved places, you have to click on stars to see the label for them.
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Updated constantly
Nearby my house, there is major road construction in progress. Apple maps didn’t show this at all, but google maps did. There was also a new, small road that was finished around 3 days ago. Google maps shows this road. Apple maps still hasn’t shown the major construction.
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Maps saved offline can easily wipe your bandwidth cap via auto update
Google Maps offline maps update automatically in the background. Not a problem if you're using a sim card in your phone, but if you connect to a pre-paid hotspot that the phone recognizes and connects to as a wifi device you risk burning through your data allotment. The offline maps can be set to update manually, but this is not default behavior.
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Most ubiquitous third party app integration
Asides from the stock Apple Maps app, Google Maps is the most commonly supported 3rd party map. 3rd party apps often have links for directions, Google Maps is usually an option whereas other 3rd party GPS apps are not.
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It’s Google
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Navigation background change based on ambient light
This is great for night driving or even when going through tunnels as the map will be more visible for low light situations.
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Secondary routing
Google Maps can now search for and add a route for a second location on the way to the primary location that you are going to and have already routed. Note that it cannot do a third or true multi routing like the desktop webapp can.
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Slant.co
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Pro/con association
When upvoting existing answers, you can associate the pros and cons which influenced your choice of chosen answer(s).
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Has strange ads
Drug and gambling ads are a huge turnoff.
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Community rated answers
Unlike a number of other Q&A sites where the person asking the question picks the winning answer, Slant accepts that they're asking because they don't know the answer, so they allow everyone in the community to pitch in by upvoting the best answer.
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Primarily for comparing products
Slant is a great website for comparing products to each other, but if your question isn't about products, the limits of Slant's format start to show more clearly.
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Pros and cons vs users' answers
Most Q&A sites give each user the chance to give an answer (sometimes multiple answers). A lot of the content of each user's answers will overlap, resulting in duplication of information (thus more to read), or information being lost in noise (e.g. if someone sees existing answers and adds a missing point without copying existing information, their point will likely languish at the bottom of the list of answers as it did not answer the majority of the question). Slant approaches this differently; rather than focusing on the users, it focuses on the points; Pros and Cons. Any user may amend the information in a pro/con, may vote based on how much that pro/con influenced their decision, and may add their own pros and cons if certain points are missing from the canon.
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Fake and dated ratings
Some ratings seem fake and many of the top lists seem very outdated listing products years and years old when there are better modern alternatives. Probably paid rankings.
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See all answers clearly
An enumeration of recommendations is easily viewed as a list, making it a good starting point for researching available options. This is the opposite of other sites in which multiple choices may be listed within a single answer, with the need for the user to read through paragraphs of information to pick out the key articles.
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Video ADs
They are annoying and traffic consuming.
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Designed for subjective questions
Slant.co's reason for being is to answer subjective questions. It was born with the knowledge that other sites existed to handle objective questions and answers, but they made no attempt to handle the intricacies of subjective answers. Slant.co is the only site focused on solving this specific area.
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Needs improvements to avoid redundancy
Many questions can lead to the same app. Example: https://www.slant.co/topics/4648/~es-file-explorer-alternatives-for-android https://www.slant.co/topics/1956/~file-explorers-on-android. If you comment something on "Total Commander", you have to do this in more than one place. According to this the Slant team is working on this issue.
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Multiple chosen answers
Subjective questions may have more than one answer. Slant allows people to vote for more than one answer as being correct, and to append the pros and cons which influenced their decision to their vote; thus giving a context of in which situations each answer may be considered correct.
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Can be quite biased
For example, this one here: https://www.slant.co/topics/1196/~q-a-websites-for-subjective-questions
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Public visibility
You do not need to have an account to view existing content (questions or answers). People can see what they're getting into before deciding if they'd like to sign up for an account and contribute to the site.
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Requires javascript
Unusable without JS.
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Continuously updated for relevance
Since recommendations and pros / cons can be updated by community members, content evolves to reflect modern standards.
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Maturity
The site is still young and has yet to build up the large user base required to have users with knowledge of all areas in which questions may be asked.
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Subject matter: programming tools, services, & technology
The site is currently dedicated to questions within the technology area. It is implied that as popularity grows it may open up to questions in other subject areas (ref: use of "Starting with..." on their Twitter profile).
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Behind Cloudflare
Slant is behind the Cloudflare MiTM.
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Allows Google independent rating for Android apps
It can be difficult to get user-ratings for Android apps that are not available on the Google Play Store. So far other sites either indirectly use Google Play Store rankings or some technical writer tells you "which are the best XXX apps for YYY".
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Broken rating system
Developers need to create systems to detect spam votes. At one point Salix was bot voted to the top of "what are the best linux distributions for desktops".
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Pros and Cons don't travel from question to question
If you see a new question and choose to add an option already recommended in another question, you need to add all pros and cons from scratch.
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Slow response
Updates uppear very slowly.
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The questions and answers are concise
I can quickly know the advantages and disadvantages of every tool/app/software/game etc and decide which one fits me best.
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Unbiased information you can trust
Slant isn't financially tied to any products listed on it. All the categories (organized into 'questions'), products (organized as 'options'), and pros/cons are added, and edited by real users - there is no way for a company to pay to have a favorable review (and if they try to do it themselves, the community can report (flag) or edit any false claims).
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Subjective claims have to be backed up with evidence
Each subjective statement needs to be backed up with objective information. An opinion has to be backed up with facts. An evidence for a claim on Slant can be provided with examples, sources, and facts.
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Posse
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Follow your friends
Everyone like to get their friends recommendations of their favorite restaurants and other places. Use the Posse app to follow all of your friends and other people that have good taste in places. Get the inside scoop of the hottest places with the best food from the people you trust the most, your friends.
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Large Network of Businesses
The Posse app has a large network of restaurants and other businesses in many large cities for you to find your favorites and hidden gems you may not have known about. Use the Posse database of places to choose a new favorite or find something you like when in a new town.
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Display and share your favorite places
The Posse app allows you to collect and display your favorite places, and lets you share those collections in a way your friends will enjoy. You can make different types of collections depending on your interests, if you are into seafood restaurants or want to give info on the best stores in your neighborhood, posse gives you the power to share.
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Sometime receive surprise gifts from favorite places
The Posse app has a customer loyalty type program built into it. When you visit your favorite places often, the Posse app gives business owners the ability to reward their customers for supporting their stores.
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Websst
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Similar to YP
Websst looks like Yellow Pages
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Results only in English
The local business reviews and business listings are only in English
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Free to use for local and small business owners
Websst is free to use marketing tool for local and small business owners
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BestCompany.com
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Offers a comprehensive ranking of the top companies in an industry
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Still growing
Despite having reviewed 3,000 companies, there are still several companies/industries that have not been reviewed.
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Provides a quick look at the most important factors in any industry
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Gives actual customers a voice
Customers can leave their own reviews in a place where businesses can actually see/respond to them.
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Explains how they rank each company
At the top of the page is a How We Rank button, which loads another page explaining the criteria of how they rank each company in a given industry. This is helpful to give some context behind certain criteria points, and helps you determine which aspect of an industry is most important to you.
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Data-driven rankings
All expert scores are calculated by carefully chosen ranking criteria.
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Facebook
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Self-censored
In a way because social platforms show you what seems most relevant to you, you may end up not seeing things that are important; a kind of self-censoring.
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Anyone can post
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Known cases of censoring
Facebook had cases of censoring content, pro Conservative US party for example.
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Actively repress 1st amendment rights of americans despite being an american company
Violations of our highest laws is not acceptable behavior.
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Will censor and ban you if you post anything that goes against government approved narrative
Even if you are posting truth and facts.
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