Foursquare Lets Users Search for Venues in Other Cities

Yelp and Foursquare have been becoming increasingly similar over the last year, but each app offers something the other can't do: With Yelp, users can't search for all venues near them; they have to choose in advance what they want to do. With Foursquare, they can't search for businesses in another neighborhood or city.

Yelp and Foursquare have been becoming increasingly similar over the last year, but each app offers something the other can’t do: With Yelp, users can’t search for all venues near them; they have to choose in advance what they want to do. With Foursquare, they can’t search for businesses in another neighborhood or city.

But Foursquare has again narrowed the difference between its local search product and Yelp’s, by allowing Web users to specify a location other than the one indicated by their ISP addresses.

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