Recipe Search Engine
- What is the FoodieView Recipe Search Engine?
- Why should I use this site to search for recipes
when I can just use a regular search engine?
- I have a recipe I'd love to share. Where can I post it?
- I have a food blog or recipe site. How can I get FoodieView to include my site in its search?
- Do you have a Firefox search plugin for FoodieView?
Restaurant Guide
- What is the Foodieview Restaurant Guide about?
- How do you select the "best" restaurants on your site?
- Do you have a restaurant guide for my area?
- What is a restaurant list? How do I create one?
- How do I create a restaurant map and embed it in my blog/website?
Recipe Search Engine
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What is the FoodieView Recipe Search Engine?
FoodieView is a recipe search engine. You can use our
site to search over a million recipes on the most
popular cooking sites on the web.
Anyone who has tried researching the best way to make
their favorite dish knows that it's a pain to switch
from site to site to find the best version. We make
things easier by providing a single place to search
the web for recipes.
Just use this simple form,
and enter a dish name, a type of cuisine, a chef's
name, a list of ingredients, or any combination of
the above.
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Why should I use this site to search for recipes
when I can just use a regular search engine?
General search engines aren't tailored specifically for recipes.
If you search for "chicken recipes", you might get a lot of pages
that don't contain recipes at all; you might get a cookbook review
page, for instance. The results will probably include lots of category
links to recipes, so you might not see what the actual recipe titles
are from the search results page, and you won't see any user ratings.
Plus FoodieView has many other features that you won't get
from a big search engine:
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I have a recipe I'd love to share. Where can I post it?
Our site focuses on organizing other sites' recipes for you
to search, so we don't have a way to post your recipes. There
are dozens of great sites that let you do this though. Two of
the most popular are AllRecipes
and Recipezaar. We'll
pick up your recipe from either of those sites.
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I have a food blog or recipe site. How can I
get FoodieView to include my site in its search?
As long as your site fits our criteria, we would be more
than happy to include your site in our search. Just send a note
to us at contact@foodieview.com.
The criteria we use to decide whether we can include
a site into our search are:
- Contains free, public recipes. If a site requires you to
register and login before viewing recipes, we can't include them.
- Does not violate copyright laws.
- Does not consist primarily of the same set of Usenet or
public domain recipes that are floating around on dozens of websites.
- Must be written in English.
- Each recipe is on a separate page.
- Does not contain excessive advertising.
- Has a search engine-friendly interface. By search engine-friendly,
we mean we should be able to get to each recipe by plain old HTML links,
not Javascript-controlled menus or Flash. Use of sessions can also
be a problem.
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Do you have a Firefox search plugin for the FoodieView Recipe Search Engine?
Yes, we do! To install it, visit our
Firefox search plugin installation page.
Restaurant Guide
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What is the Foodieview Restaurant Guide about?
Finding restaurant reviews can be a pain since you have to
sift through lots of junk to get to the good information.
Our restaurant guide compiles links to the restaurant reviews (from
newspapers, magazines, review sites, and food blogs) and puts them all
in one convenient place.
You can also see the best restaurants for an area,
write your own restaurant reviews, make lists of
restaurants, and create restaurant maps for your blog or website.
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How do you select the "best" restaurants on your site?
Basically, if a restaurant has recently been nominated for
an award from a major publication (either print or online),
we will give it the "best" designation. The award nomination
can be a food critic's notable pick, or a readers poll. We
also give the best designation for garnering stars or a
recommended status from particularly fussy publications
(like the New York Times).
The awards must be given on the merits of the restaurant.
We're trying not to include awards that a restaurant could
basically buy for itself.
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Do you have a restaurant guide for my area?
To see which areas we are covering, check out
our restaurant guide home page.
If you don't see your city/area listed there,
write to us at contact@foodieview.com. It's nice
to know which areas you're interested in.
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What is a restaurant list? How do I create one?
We allow you to create lists of restaurants to
let everyone know your likes and dislikes. You could
create a list for just about any purpose. It could be a
list of your favorite restaurants, the most underrated
restaurants, the best places to get buffalo wings. Your
imagination is the limit.
You can then share the link to your restaurant list with
friends or even embed the map of
the restaurants in your list on your blog.
To create a list, register
and login to our site, then click the
My Restaurant Lists link on the lefthand side of the page
where you will see a form to create a list.
To add a restaurant to a list, just navigate to the restaurant's
details page and click on the Add To List link. A box with your
lists will appear. Just select the list you want, and the restaurant
will be added.
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How do I create a restaurant map and embed it in my blog/website?
If you have a blog or personal web site, and you want
to provide a restaurant map to your readers, you can do
it using our site.
On many pages on our restaurant guide, right under a map,
you'll see a text box labelled Embed Map. You can just
copy the code from this text box, and paste it into your
web page or blog post, and the map will appear on your site.
So you could create a list of your
favorite restaurants, then copy the Embed Map code from your
list's map, and paste it into your blog.
If you run a restaurant review site/blog that we are including
on FoodieView, you can go to the search results page for your site,
then use the Embed Map code to get a map of your site's restaurant reviews.
The restaurant name in the map will link directly to your review
of that restaurant.
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