Dive summary:
- Local recommendations, such as those available on Yelp, will be available to non-registered users of Foursquare through the Explore search tool feature.
- Foursquare recommendations will be based on if a place is popular and if it has repeat customers.
- About 20% of Foursquare Explore users check into the location within three days.
From the article:
(Foursquare head of search Andrew) Hogue says, "We can still do a good job of recommending things even if we don’t know anything about an individual user."