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Ness in the Media

• Ness: A Combination Of Instagram And Yelp

  By Eleanor West, Food Republic - May 14, 2012

  "While Ness’ recent addition of Instagram gave it a design advantage over competitors like Yelp and Fondu, its easy-to-use and highly accurate rating system is its true strength."

• Ness Dining Guide for iPhone review: a beautiful way to discover food around you

  By Leanna Lofte, iMore - May 5, 2012

  "The Ness Dining Guide for iPhone is a gorgeous way to discover restaurants and cafes that you'll like."

• 10 Best U.S. City Travel Apps

  By Tom Tiberio, CNN - March 1, 2012

  "... Ness is the Pandora of restaurant apps. It builds up your "taste" for a place based on your likes, but it can also incorporate friend recommendations."

• The World's 50 Most Innovative Companies: Top 10 Food

  Fast Company - February 13, 2012

  "... a sleek, social food app that recommends what to eat next."

• Apps of the Week: Ness, TED, and Camouflage

  By Jared Erondu, Macgasm - January 27, 2012

  "I’m proud to announce that I’ve had a splendid week in terms of dining due to this icon on my home screen."

• Ness, The Restaurant Discovery App, Adds Crucial Mapping Feature

  By Eric Eldon, TechCrunch - January 18, 2012

  "[Ness] uses machine learning technology, deriving results from a variety of social signals that you provide it from Facebook, Foursquare and Twitter, as well as your behavior and other data, to figure out which places you’ll like the most. The result is often what you’re hoping for — suggestions for great places that you might not have seen on other restaurant discovery apps, or heard about anywhere else for that matter."

• Forbes 30 Under 30

  Forbes - December 18, 2011

  "Corey Reese, CEO, Ness Computing, 26
  Where to go tonight? He created Ness, a personalized search engine that learns your tastes in things like restaurants."

• Ness: An App That’s Smarter Than Google & Yelp?

  By Christina DesMarais, Inc. - December 9, 2011

  "Palo Alto-based Ness Computing launched its dining recommendations app only about three months ago and already it’s being wooed by the likes of Goldman Sachs, was just listed in the Staff Favorites section of Apple’s iTunes App Store, and closed a Series A funding round with some big time investors."

• Ness Adds Social Sharing To Its Mobile Restaurant Recommendation App

  By Eric Eldon, TechCrunch - December 8, 2011

  "...what Ness does is already special, and getting better with the new version."

• Ness, the iPhone app that tells you where to eat, hooks up with Facebook

  By Jennifer Van Grove, Venture Beat - December 8, 2011

  "...kudos for delivering a colorful and delightfully rich app experience"

• A List Of Startups Goldman Sachs Thinks Will Most Likely IPO

  By Alexia Tsotsis, TechCrunch - December 3, 2011

  "..these are the 30 or so startups Goldman has designated as potential IPO candidates."

• For Ness, restaurant discovery is just an appetizer

  By Brad Spirrison, Appolicious - October 1, 2011

  "While there are a lot of restaurant discovery apps available for iOS devices, few if any are as beautifully crafted and ambitious as Ness."

• How Apps Step Up to the Plate for Food-Oriented Start-Ups: Guest

  By Brad Spirrison, NBC 5 Chicago - September 23, 2011

  "Nationally, the hottest mobile application that focuses on restaurant recommendations is the Ness iPhone app."

• Ness Brings Personalized Touch To Mobile Search

  By Tomio Geron, Forbes - August 25, 2011

  "Ness is aiming to provide much more personalized search results than what exists on sites from Google to Yelp."

• Ness Serves Up Their First Personal Search App Catering To Restaurant Discovery

  By MG Siegler, TechCrunch - August 25, 2011

  "Score one for Ness... Could make for one killer, subjective mobile search engine."

• Ness Is a Personalized Search Engine for the Mobile World

  By Ben Parr, Mashable - August 25, 2011

  "[Ness] takes a different approach to restaurant recommendations than Yelp, UrbanSpoon, and the regular tools people usually use... We're impressed by the results so far. If Ness can nail down restaurant recommendations, it has the opportunity to become a new type of mobile search engine that can be used for almost any decision."

• Meet Ness, the Pandora for Restaurant Recommendations

  By Colleen Taylor, GigaOM - August 25, 2011

  "Even in a city chock full of great restaurants, it can be really tough to find a new one I'll be sure to like. That's where Ness comes in. Behind the slick user interface, [there's] serious tech muscle."

• Ness: Personalized Search Results

  By Robert Scoble, Building43 - August 25, 2011

  Several applications help you search for restaurants, movies, places to shop, etc. However, none of these sites make an effort to truly understand your personal preferences... Ness Computing is doing just that.

• Ness: The Latest, Smartest and Prettiest App to Help You Figure Out Where to Eat

  By Liz Gannes, AllThingsD - August 25, 2011

  "Sexy, smart, ingenious."

• With $5 Million In Their Pockets, Ness Has Quietly Built A Subjective Search Engine

  By MG Siegler, TechCrunch - July 19, 2011

  "If you use search products today there's plenty of things for solving objective inquiries. But what about things that are more subjective?," Reese says. "What about, 'what's best for me?'. Is there a concert this weekend that I should go to?," he continues. What Ness is building will attempt to answer these inquires.

Press Releases

• August 25, 2011 | Ness Launches Personal Search Engine
• July 19, 2011 | Ness Computing Announces $5M Series A Financing

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