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Re: Yelp Hipster Finder

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Post by ritchiea »

dwyer wrote: post #42
semiprivate wrote: post #18

This is actually a good way to figure out where to stay when visiting a city. Click tourist and avoid, click hipster and go there. Maybe go to the slightly less red areas for a more low key night. At least that's how you'd have fun if you were a 20-30 something in NYC.

> when visiting a city. Click tourist and avoid So you're too good to be a tourist when you're a tourist? You sound like a hipster. > click hipster and go there Oh wait... But in all seriousness, if I go to Rome, I want to see The Colosseum. If I go to Amsterdam, I want to see the Van Gogh Museum. Not being a tourist somewhere means having already seen what the tourists there are just seeing for the first time. Would…

Or you could see historic landmarks during the day and explore restaurants and bars local residents actually enjoy in the evenings. Restaurants that cater to tourists do so because you can profit off of their unfamiliarity with the area without having to provide a competitive dining experience in a municipality that broadly offers many excellent dining options. Wanting to find a plethora of interesting experiences when you travel and avoid being taken advantage of doesn't make you a hipster. And even if you are a hipster, who cares?

PS - this comment was written by someone who you probably would consider a hipster. Full disclosure just in case that colors your view

Re: Yelp Hipster Finder

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Post by kryten »

semiprivate wrote: post #18

This is actually a good way to figure out where to stay when visiting a city. Click tourist and avoid, click hipster and go there. Maybe go to the slightly less red areas for a more low key night. At least that's how you'd have fun if you were a 20-30 something in NYC.

Depends what you are after and what city.

Having mistakenly bought a house in a hipster infested area of London a few years ago, I wouldn't recommend your approach unless your idea of a good night out is doing copious amounts of coke in front of children out with their parents, getting pissed and vomiting over the pavement (sidewalk), getting your iPhone nicked and then wading through broken glass until you get to your hotel.

Nathan Barley just about sums it up.

Re: Yelp Hipster Finder

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Post by dtf »

basicallydan wrote: post #59

In London, "cheap" and "pricey" tend to stay around the same sort of area. http://www.yelp.co.uk/wordmap/london/cheap http://www.yelp.co.uk/wordmap/london/pricey Well, shit. This is awesome though. Nice one, Yelp :)

Soho pretty much is both at once. Expensive cocktail bars next to old men's pubs, fancy restaurants next to fish & chip shops, exclusive members' clubs next to dirty downstairs speakeasies.

Re: Yelp Hipster Finder

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Post by liquidcool »

Am I missing something? For LA, it's telling me that the hipster areas are Silver Lake, WeHo, Venice, etc. Well, duh. As the Dothraki would say, "It is known."

Why doesn't it actually show the individual establishments adding heat to the map? I realize I could just search for it on their site, but I don't know if the measure of relevance would be the same. I'm really curious what's causing all that bacon heat.

Re: Yelp Hipster Finder

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Post by michaelt »

kapilkale wrote: post #54
hnriot wrote: post #53

Earlier quoted context omitted.

How is this SEO?

It's high quality content that people want to share. Some of those people will inevitably share it on their blogs, with links pointing at the site. As a result, Yelp's pagerank improves and they stay ahead of their competition for things like "best restaurants in San Francisco". A ton (I'd guess 80%+) of Yelp's traffic comes from Google / Bing search. Maintaining / growing that traffic is probably a substantial drive…

So, is all high quality content people link to "SEO"?

Re: Yelp Hipster Finder

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Post by gadders »

semiprivate wrote: post #18

This is actually a good way to figure out where to stay when visiting a city. Click tourist and avoid, click hipster and go there. Maybe go to the slightly less red areas for a more low key night. At least that's how you'd have fun if you were a 20-30 something in NYC.

Click "hipster" and pass the address to Al Qaeda
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