Zagat

The Zagat Survey /zəˈɡæt/ or zə-GAT was established by Tim and Nina Zagat in 1979 as a way to collect and correlate the ratings of restaurants by diners; for their first guide, covering New York City, the Zagats surveyed their friends. At its height, ca. 2005, the Zagat Survey included 70 cities, with reviews based on the input of 250,000 individuals with the guides reporting on and rating restaurants, hotels, nightlife, shopping, zoos, music, movies, theaters, golf courses, and airlines. The guides are sold in book form, and were formerly only available as a paid subscription on the Zagat website. As part of its $125 million acquisition by Google in September 2011, Zagat's offering of reviews and ratings became a part of Google's Geo and Commerce group, eventually to be tightly integrated into Google's services. Google relaunched Zagat's website on July 29, 2013 with an improved interface, but cut down the site from 30 cities to 9. They released a searchable database of reviews from the other 21 cities in the following days while they worked on expanding to include more cities in the new site. In December 2012, Google announced that it would lay off most former full-time Zagat employees that had been extended as contractors at the time of the acquisition, leading to prophetic business reports describing the future of Zagat book production as bleak, and subsequent business news reports recording the contraction of their print businesses. Regardless, Google's acquisition and integration of Zagat provided it a strong brand in local restaurant recommendations and ample content for location-based searches.

Zagat (name)

Zagat is the surname of the following people

  • Arthur Leo Zagat (1896–1949), American lawyer and writer of pulp fiction and science fiction
  • Tim and Nina Zagat (born 1940) American lawyers, co-founders and publishers of Zagat Restaurant Surveys
  • Crater

    Crater may refer to:

    In landforms:

  • Impact crater, caused by two celestial bodies impacting each other, such as a meteorite hitting a planet
  • Volcanic crater or caldera, formed by volcanic activity
  • Subsidence crater, from an underground (usually nuclear) explosion
  • A maar crater, a relief crater caused by a phreatic eruption or explosion
  • pit crater, a crater that forms through sinking of the surface and not as a vent for lava
  • Crater lake
  • Explosion crater, a hole formed in the ground produced by an explosion near or below the surface
  • Machtesh, a crater-like formation created by erosion.
  • Other:

  • Crater, California, in Inyo County
  • Cratering, when reindeer dig for lichens that sustain them in winter months
  • Crater (constellation)
  • Joseph F. Crater, a New York judge who disappeared in 1930
  • An alternate ancient name for the Crathis, a river of southern Italy
  • Crater (Yemen)
  • The Crater (novel) a book by James Cooper
  • Crater Exploration New Space services company.
  • Crater, a 2016 collaborative album between Mamiffer and Daniel Menche
  • Crater (Aden)

    Crater (/ˈkrtər/; Arabic: كريتر, [ˈkɾeːtəɾ]), also Kraytar, is a district of the Aden Governorate, Yemen. Its official name is Seera (Arabic: صيرة Ṣīrah). It is situated in a crater of an ancient volcano which forms the Shamsan Mountains. In 1991, the population was 70,319. As of 2003, the district had a population of 76,723 people.

    In the closing days of British rule in 1967, Crater District became the focus of the Aden Emergency, sometimes called the last imperial war. After a mutiny of hundreds of soldiers in the South Arabian Federation Army on 20 June, all British forces withdrew from the Crater. The Crater was occupied by Arab fighters while British forces blocked off its two main entrances. In July, a British infantry battalion, led by Lt. Col. Colin Mitchell of the Argyll & Sutherland Highlanders, entered the Crater and managed to occupy the entire district overnight with no casualties. Nevertheless, deadly guerrilla attacks soon resumed, with the British leaving Aden by the end of November 1967, earlier than had been planned by British Prime Minister Harold Wilson and without an agreement on the succeeding governance.

    Crater (Chinese astronomy)

    According to traditional Chinese uranography, the modern constellation Crater is located within the southern quadrant of the sky, which is symbolized as the Vermilion Bird of the South (南方朱雀, Nán Fāng Zhū Què).

    The name of the western constellation in modern Chinese is 巨爵座 (jù jué zuò), meaning "the huge wine holder constellation".

    Stars

    The map of Chinese constellation in constellation Crater area consists of :

    See also

  • Chinese astronomy
  • Traditional Chinese star names
  • Chinese constellations
  • References

    External links

  • Crater – Chinese associations
  • 香港太空館研究資源
  • 中國星區、星官及星名英譯表
  • 天象文學
  • 台灣自然科學博物館天文教育資訊網
  • 中國古天文
  • 中國古代的星象系統
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