Yahoo Food

[C_Ruark]

Google has recently unveiled an application to create your own custom google search that culls through url's of your specifying.

Elise of Simply Recipes has just put up FoodBlogSearch.com which searches through the food blogs listed on her site.

This is a foodie search that warms my heart, a plebian conglomeration - unlike the Yahoo Food venture.

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//sound of Klaxons screaming//

GAH!!!! Brain hurts... from too much... information overload. Going prompt... critical...

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I just burned two hours on the list.

Thanks for the post McA!!!

~C

Edited November 8, 2006 by C_Ruark (log)

[larrylee]

Warning, foodies targeted by Web Giants... first, news corp took over chowhound, now yahoo has launched its own site

http://food.yahoo.com/

Just for the record, CNET took over chowhound. News Corp bought Myspace.

[srhcb]

Surely Google will offer some similar things soon.

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Next, maybe "Drudge Grub"?

SB

[ghostrider]

I've heard of not allowing cookies but this 'hide cake' concept is a new one.

Add me to the unimpressed and start a new "dismayed" list:  I clicked on the Local Dining Guide link and much to my surprise, Kansas City was on the "major cities" list (despite the fact we rarely make it into those ranks in the 'major' food periodicals).  So I clicked on our fair city to see if it looked advertorial or 'real' and to my even greater surprise, was taken to a page (with map) of Kansas City KS!  For those unfamiliar with the area - and with all due respect to KCK, home of many delicious restaurants most of which are small, ethnic and rarely heard of outside of these forums - KCK (as it is called locally) is not the Kansas City most people think of.  KCMO is the home of the majority of restaurants typically associated with Kansas City (although that's becoming less true as the Johnson County suburbs continue to grow and open some interesting non-franchise places).  Anyway, I'm rambling but I just found it interesting that they defaulted to KCK as it gaves a rather different perspective to dining here than most people expect.  Yes, there are fabulous mom and pop eateries, with a heavy leaning toward Latino cuisines, but I would guess the typical yahoo food visitor would be looking for something else entirely.  I'm not going to call their attention to it, though.  It would be great if some tourist dollars found their way into the urban core on the KS side and all of those hard-working, unsung heros in tiny kitchens benefitted from what is probably just lazy research.

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Curiously, or at least coincidentally, that David Eckert fellow, who does the PBS show Culinary Travels, both lives in KC & recently devoted 2 (perhaps more, I missed one) of his episodes to the restaurants there. (One of them focused on the restaurants at Ameristar Casino, which was curious indeed.) As a MO boy & sometime visitor to KC, I enjoyed the shows.