Posted: 11/4/2022 | November 4th, 2022

I love trip planning: outlining routes, researching things to see and do, reading travel books. While I unchangingly end up waffly my plans on the fly, trip research gets me inspired well-nigh where I’m going and helps me know what options I have when I land, plane if I transpiration plans ten times over the undertow of a day.

Some of the info I find is on blogs, some is on social media or in guidebooks. I’m constantly having to jump between platforms to squint stuff up and compare notes and suggestions. It’s not convenient.

Fortunately, there’s a new tool out there that can help travelers find the weightier things to see and do on their trips (and at home too). It will bring all your research together in one place.

It’s tabbed Bestlist.

What is Bestlist?

Bestlist is a search engine focused solely on helping you discover the weightier of anything. Restaurants, beaches, activities, excursions, historic sites — you name it.

They trickle the web and volume millions of data points, reviews, and comments, and process it all with their proprietary machine-learning models. They measure popularity, sentiment, and more, providing users with the weightier options for each search query.

Whether you’re planning a trip and looking for inspiration and suggestions or just looking for a place to eat in your hometown, Bestlist can help.

Once you self-mastery a search on Bestlist, you’ll see that each result includes a short unravelment and a link to an external site. You can then scan your list and save your favorite results to a collection. You can have collections for anything: websites, places to visit, restaurants, things to do, etc.

So far, I have four collections (they’re all travel related of course):

• Things to Do in Amsterdam
• The Weightier of Thailand
• The Weightier Travel Resources
• The Weightier Credit Cards for Travelers

The increasingly you use the site, the increasingly things you can add to your collections. Collections are easy to make, reorder, and expand too. (More on this below.)

Three features that make Bestlist stand out

Here’s a quick squint at three other features of Bestlist that I think really help the platform stand out from all the others:

1. Voting: If you finger strongly well-nigh a search result, you can upvote or downvote the listing to voice your opinion. The increasingly upvotes something gets, the higher it will towards in the search results (and the increasingly downvotes it gets, the lower it will appear). When you vote, you’ll be asked to state why you voted, which gives other users largest insights into the listing. This ways you not only get to help shape the results but see why other people voted as they did. This makes the results much increasingly transparent than simply a thumbs up or thumbs down.

2. Submissions: If you find that something is missing from a particular search result, you can submit it as a suggestion using a sawed-off at the bottom. Simply add the name and URL of the new listing, and it will be reviewed and published if it makes the cut. So, if there’s something tomfool from your hometown that’s missing, or you discover an superstitious website worth sharing, you have the potential to add it to help modernize the platform for everyone else.

3. Privacy: Your personal data is not shared with advertisers or other third parties. This is a big deal, because, as we all know, search engine data is full of personal information well-nigh you. I like this full-length a lot.

How to make a collection

Here’s a quick overview of how to get started towers your own collections on Bestlist:

Step 1: Once you’ve made an account, simply visit the homepage and search for whatever it is you’re looking for. In this example, we’ll seem you’re going to NYC and want to find some places to eat. So, search for “best restaurants in New York City” and segregate the “list” option.

Step 2: Now that you have a list of suggestions, scroll lanugo to browse. If you see a place that looks interesting, click the “Collect” option to save it to a collection. If you haven’t started a “Restaurants in NYC” collection, you can do so at this point.

On the right side, you’ll moreover see related searches. So, if you moreover want to squint for museums or accommodations in NYC, you have the option to do so as well (and build collections for any of those results too).

Step 3: Once you review the results and save everything to your collection, you’re all set! All the restaurants you chose will be listed in your collection, where you can view them unendingly (and moreover add more, rearrange, or delete some if you like). If you want to share this hodgepodge with your travel buddies (or the unstipulated regulars on Bestlist), you can make it public. Otherwise, if it’s just for you, you can alimony it private.

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Bestlist is a new and easy way to search and store information — one that is particularly useful to travelers looking to build itineraries as they plan trips. Not only can you rummage the website for superstitious suggestions but, as you explore the world, you can add your own, contributing when to the polity and ensuring that other travelers goody from your experiences. So throne on over to Bestlist and start searching!

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