Bizzy Community Shares Over 100,000 Local Business Favorites

MOUNTAIN VIEW, Calif., Jan. 18, 2011 /PRNewswire/ -- Bizzy (http://www.bizzy.com), a personalized local business recommendation engine powered by people with similar tastes, today announced that Bizzy users have already shared over 100,000 local business favorites just 10 weeks after the nationwide beta launch. In celebration, Bizzy is releasing lists of the most "favorited" local businesses in the top 10 cities and launching the "100,000 Rec Check Challenge."

"By reaching the 100,000 shared favorites milestone we are able to open up our beta to anyone who comes in and answers a few questions about their favorite places," said Gadi Shamia, Bizzy founder, president and general manager. "We are thrilled that these first 100,000 favorites came in faster than we anticipated because providing quality personalized recommendations takes quality data. The 100,000 favorites our users have shared are used to make over 650,000 local business recommendations and with every new shared favorite, the recommendations Bizzy makes are getting that much better."

To give some insight into what Americans are saying their favorite businesses are, today, Bizzy is releasing lists of the most favorited local restaurants in the top 10 cities using Bizzy including San Francisco, New York, Dallas, Los Angeles, Chicago, Washington, DC, Seattle, Shreveport, La., Boston and Austin, Texas. Visit http://blog.bizzy.com/the-bizziest-cities-in-america to see the lists.

Bizzy is also announcing the "100,000 Rec Check Challenge."

"We wanted to get feedback about the quality of our recommendations, so we came up with what we call Rec Checks," said Shamia. "A Rec Check is when a Bizzy user tries one of their personalized recommendations and then lets us know how it went. We thought it would be fun to run a contest to find the best Rec Checks and acknowledge some Bizzy users for helping us out."  

More details can be found at: http://blog.bizzy.com/bizzy-is-celebrating-100-thousand-favorites

To get personalized Bizzy recommendations, users start with a quick question and answer game to find out about their favorite local businesses. Their favorites are then mapped to people with similar preferences, creating a basis for Bizzy's recommendations. Bizzy allows you to browse personalized recommendations based on rank, category or trends. Bizzy recommends the best places for you to eat, shop and play based on the places you've identified as your favorites.

To map your favorites to people with similar preferences and start getting personalized local business recommendations go to Bizzy.com.

Bizzy for iPhone and iPod touch is now available for free in the Apple App Store or by clicking this link: http://bizzy.com/iphone

About Bizzy

Bizzy is a local business recommendation engine powered by people who like the same places you do. Bizzy uses your personal preferences to help you discover local businesses recommended by people with similar tastes. Bizzy is a wholly-owned subsidiary of ReachLocal (Nasdaq: RLOC). For more information and to sign up please visit http://www.bizzy.com.

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