Restaurant recommendations service Ness has been steadily improving upon on its technology which helps you find the best place to eat based on your unique likes and dislikes, a place's popularity, time of day and other factors. Earlier this year, it rolled out an update which allowed for instant recommendations, and today it's launching recommendations for groups - that is, it's able to combine…
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Ness, the restaurant recommendations app that uses social data combined with machine-learning techniques to offer personalized suggestions, has released the next major version of its application today, now focused on what it’s calling “instant recommendations.” In the earlier version, Ness relied on user-initiated searches and a setup wizard that asked users to select their…
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Silicon Valley-based Ness Computing (Ness) has raised $15 million in Series B funding from Singapore’s SingTel Innov8, American Express Ventures and an affiliate of the LeFrak Organization. Ness made waves…
I made heavy use of Ness‘s restaurant-finding iOS app during a recent trip through the East Coast, because lots of places are still sadly short on Yelp reviews, and I wanted a quick way to find the best local spots to eat. While I got some good results, I would have been all over a new feature that Ness has just pushed out in an update today: maps. Yeah, another restaurant app with a map. You’re not shocked, I’m guessing, but you should take a closer look because of the data that Ness offers. It uses ma...
Ness Computing has just launched a new version of its restaurant search engine app that takes its existing recommendations technology and adds in new sharing services. Yes, there are plenty of restaurant recommendations apps out there, and social tie-ins are increasingly common on mobile devices. But what Ness does is already special, and getting better with the new version. The company has spent years developing machine learning technology that looks at your social data from sites like Facebook, Foursq...
Right now, when I want to find a place to eat, I fire up Yelp. Which is fine, until I pull my hair out reading some weirdo reviews from annoying holier-than-thou reviewers. Ness is different, they try to cut them out. The app suggest restaurants based on your own tastes. You start by rating 10 restaurants so Ness can learn your preferences. It's a whole lot like Netflix recommendations—the more places you give 5-star ratings to, the more Ness will "learn" you and deliver tailor-made suggestions. There...
Last night I went out to dinner. But I didn’t pick where I was going, Ness did. The place was good. Score one for Ness. We previously covered Ness Computing in July, talking about the technology that would power their eventual apps (as well as their funding). Today, the first such app has gone live in the App Store, called simply, Ness. It’s a personal search engine catering to restaurants. And it’s good. Whereas most food and restaurant recommendation apps focus on ratings from the general population, ...
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