RecipeBridge is a
vertical search
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engine for
recipes,
founded by
Milwaukee
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based entrepreneurs Andy Theimer and Bill
Brennan. It was established in December 2007 and a
beta version
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was launched in 2008 which makes it the oldest dedicated recipe search engine on the
web.
The current version was launched in April, 2009. As of July 2011, it searches through 350 different recipe sites and
blog
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s with over 1.7 million recipes.
RecipeBridge allows users to search and filter results by
keyword
Keyword may refer to:
Computing
* Keyword (Internet search), a word or phrase typically used by bloggers or online content creator to rank a web page on a particular topic
* Index term, a term used as a keyword to documents in an information syst ...
, cuisine,
ingredient, meal, or
occasion. The
results page provides users with the
brief description of the recipes and a number of ingredients
needed. Then the user can either go to the original recipe
page or further narrow the results by adding other
ingredients.
In July 2011 RecipeBridge has been
acquired by the global food advertising network Gourmet
Ads with a goal "to build the largest recipe search engine, combining
recipe sites, blogs, food brands and supermarkets into one
destination".
[Capel, Claudin]
"Gourmet Ads buys RecipeBridge"
''B&T'', Retrieved on 2011-7-23.
References
External links
* {{Official website
American cooking websites
Domain-specific search engines