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Finding a new local pub gets easier

Finally! Someone has, at long last, come up with a use for the internet. Swiss computer experts have set up an online service that finds a pub just like your local anywhere in the world.

Philipp Kraeutli, Matthias Alder, Simon Morger and Marc Gasser, all in their early 20s, say it’s ideal for anyone arriving in a new city. You just type in details of your local on their website and the internet program will find a matching pub. They say their site localina.com uses a database of 100,000 bars, pubs and clubs worldwide and is maintained by a huge staff in different countries.

“When you are in a new city, you have no idea where to go out,” said Gasser. “Our software identifies a user’s taste and presents suggestions based on that taste.”

The site is currently in German, but babelfish can probably help out there…

This was posted in Bdaily's Members' News section by Ruth Mitchell .