If you look for a restaurant on Google, you might get 5,731 results — ranked by the search engine algorithm’s “attempt” to give you the answers you’re looking for.
If you ask a local where to eat, you’ll likely get 2-3 really strong recommendations.
There’s a big difference.
While Lanc Local will never have the personal touch of chatting in person with a local, the goal is to get as close as we can. At a base level, we want to provide an experience that far exceeds mainstream directories and search engines.
We also want to be transparent with how we rank the local businesses.
Our philosophy is that the “best” option for whatever you are looking for — whether it be a restaurant or a mini golf course — varies quite a bit, based on what you’re looking for. For this reason, we’re not going to provide a numbered list from #1 to #50 based on overly general criteria.
Instead, our goal is to provide options. And to ensure that the options we’re providing are reputable businesses, well-rated by locals. Any business with the tag of “locals’ choice” matches this criteria.
Curious about the specifics? Here’s the details:
- Every business needs to meet a certain threshold of locals’ reviews & metrics to be considered a locals’ choice.
- Beyond that, we used weighted average review data from locals in the area to rank businesses.
In this way, we can highlight a small up-and-coming local business with few, but strong, reviews right alongside a business with strong reviews that’s been in the business for 50 years and may have thousands of reviews.
our goal is to leverage locals’ reviews across the web in an unbiased way.
Enjoy!