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Frequently Asked Questions
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| What is GeoPage? |
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GeoPage is your one-stop city guide. It is a comprehensive online service helping people find local places through a visual geo-search engine and city-related blogs. GeoPage helps people make informed decisions on "where to go" and "what to do" by offering a proprietary intelligent venue ranking system.
GeoPage is committed to providing local content that people care about. Future offerings will include the ability to buy movie tickets, book reservations and much more - truly your one stop shop to find and book your day or night plans. |
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| How does your geo-search engine work? |
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| GeoPage's geo-search engine allows you to conduct a range search by latitude/longitude without the need to input specific keywords. You can simply zoom into a location on the map and explore all the points of interest (restaurant, bars/clubs, theaters, etc.) in that area. For example, if you want to see all the places around your home or the restaurant you're going out to, simply zoom into the location and browse the surrounding venues. |
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| Google map search is a keyword-based search system that simply displays keyword results on a map. You have to enter specific keywords to invoke a search request; therefore, you have to know what you are looking for. GeoPage's search engine allows you to browse everything in a particular geography even if you don't know exactly what you are looking for. GeoPage helps you to stumble upon or discover new places that you might not have known about. |
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| GeoPage's venue filters allow you to personalize your search and choose the perfect destination for every occasion. Simply browse the categories, checkbox the proper filters, and then see all the venues in your area that fit your specific criteria.
For example, want to find a sushi restaurant in Seattle that has a happy hour and outdoor seating? Of course you do! Just check the three boxes: sushi, happy hour and outdoor seating, and GeoPage will instantly display all the restaurants on the map that fit your description. |
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GeoPage offers a birds-eye view of all the social venues in your area so you can plan your entire day or evening more efficiently.
For example, maybe you're going out with friends and want to grab a coffee, go to the movies and finish up at a lounge? Great! GeoPage can display all the coffee shops, theaters and lounges in your area to help you choose the best route so you spend less time (and money) getting around, and more time out and about enjoying the city. |
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| GeoPage uses a unique scoring system (0-10) to give you a new and quick way to determine the popularity of a place without having to read lengthy reviews across various sites.
This score is generated by compiling ratings, recommendations, reviews, and blogs from multiple sources and creating a bell curve score that rates this venue compared to its direct competition---specific category, cuisine type, and location.
Now, you can quickly see the most popular sushi restaurants in a particular city. |
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| Most venue review sites use an absolute scoring system of 1-5 stars simply based on user ratings from their own site alone. GeoPage goes much further by combining information across multiple venue-related sites and uses a comparative scoring algorithm that rates venues according to their genre, cuisine, or category. |
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| GeoPage currently has venues all across the United States and Canada. Because new venues pop up every day, we might be missing some places in your town. We will be offering an automatic way for you to submit a new venue into our public database. In the meantime, please email us the venue info (name, address, phone number, venue type) to and we will add the venue promptly. |
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GeoBlogs are city-related blogs that allow people to share their ideas and city experiences with friends, locals and travelers. Simply tag relevant venues and write down your thoughts---there's no right or wrong way to do it! GeoBlogs can range in topic from "Favorite Happy Hours" to "My last vacation" or even "What I did last weekend."
By using your Facebook account, your GeoBlogs will automatically be published to
your Facebook friends.
Unleash your city expertise! |
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| In most cases, to write a review, people are motivated by a particularly great (or horrific) experience about a single venue. Luckily, writing a GeoBlog doesn't require experiencing "the best meal of your life" or "the first time I yelled at a waiter" moments because you can write a GeoBlog on just about anything, whenever you want, for one or multiple places. Simply choose some venues (maybe a restaurant you've never tried or a coffee shop you go to every night)... and write down your past experiences, real-time plans, or thoughts for going out in the future. |
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| GeoPage is for people who want to explore and experience their city. People use GeoPage to search for venues, write GeoBlogs, find ideas, and share with friends. Most GeoPage users want a simple approach to access reliable and local information in a cool, visual way. |
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| If you'd like to advertise on GeoPage, please contact . If you are a venue owner, and you'd like to own your page (add/edit info), please contact us at with the name of the business, address, city, state, and phone number. |
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| GeoPage's mission is to be the next generation platform for providing relevant local information. GeoPage's focus is not to be a general social network like Facebook, but a community that focuses on content "by local people for local people." The purpose behind GeoPage is to provide a full suite of innovative tools and content for people to interact efficiently and deeper with their local community. |
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| The process of meeting up with your friends will now be simple and fun. In addition, you and your friends will be able to share cool places and things about new location spots and current events. |
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| No, GeoPage is completely free to users. GeoPage also offers several business solutions to service hotels, restaurants, and other venues to enhance service and increase sales. For more information about our business solutions, please go to [URL]. |
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| Absolutely. The "smarts" of the engine begins to learn more about your location as you increase the frequency of use. By recommending venues, writing GeoBlogs, and interacting more on the site, you will teach GeoPage's engine to deliver more accurate and personalized results for you. |
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| There are a many things that you can do to help GeoPage's engine understand your preferences; however, the simplest way is to find venues on the site and click "Recommend it". By doing so, GeoPage will add these to your profile and use the information (type and physical location) to better understand your preferences. |
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| Many of the popular, widely-used, free internet email providers have very strict spam filters that do not recognize valid email messages. Please check your junk email folder for your confirmation email to make sure it was not filtered. Once you mark emails from GeoPage as not junk email, you should receive all the relevant email messages from Geopage. |
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| Yes, we have multiple privacy settings for you to choose. The current settings include private, friends only, or public. Your profile listing will show up in search results, venue pages, etc. or other aggregate map views, but you will always control the level of privacy for who can actually view your page. |
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| Your data belongs to you. We will never share or sell your private individual information. We will only send you email if you indicate that we may, otherwise you will never hear from us. For all the details, read our privacy policy. |
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