You can now search right from your browser (IE7 and Firefox 2.0+ only) via the BooRah restaurant search plugin. Download the plugin here.The BooRah search plugin is based on the OpenSearch standard.
Looking for the best Pad Thai in town? Have a craving for some good lobster bisque? You can now use the BooRah semantic search engine to search-by-phrase to find that perfect restaurant. Simply go to boorah.com, enter your search term (dish, cuisine, or restaurant name), and your city.
Under the hood of the semantic engine
Each review is semantically analyzed and sentiment references to food (specific dishes, taste, presentation), service, and ambiance are collected. Positive references are Rahs, negative references are Boos. When you look for good Pad Thai in San Francisco, the search engine essentially retrieves the list of restaurants with the most number of Rahs for "Pad Thai".
This semantic search engine code is really in "Alpha" stage; so, you may run into a bug now & then. Please report bugs to bugs[at]boorah[dot]com. Happy searching.
By popular demand, we’ve reinstated chronological review listings by restaurant. When we refreshed our site a few weeks back, we replaced our chronological review listings with a page of review highlights, sorted by-source on each restaurant’s detail page. We’ve now added them both - a tab-page that lists short excerpts from all reviews sorted chronologically, and a tab-page (called "Highlights") that displays all review sources, with highlights that are generated automatically by our system from all of the reviews on that site. Let us know what you think!