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August 17, 2006
Jaliscan Restaurants Online
I started to do a piece on the fact that many businesses here give URLs to websites in their print advertisements that do not work. I still might do that piece, which would continue on to talk about how many major bus lines have phone numbers listed in the Guadalajara yellow pages that do not work and have not for years. The lack of follow-through when good money has been paid for advertising here really surprises me sometimes.
However, after taking a deep breath, I reasoned that it would probably be more helpful to list a few websites for local businesses that I've found to actually work, instead of linking to a bunch of sites that don't (even though they should) work.
It has been my experience that it's awfully difficult to find a web site in Mexico using search engines, even if you enter the name properly, the location, the phone number...for some reason they just don't come up on search engines like Google unless they're really popular. Sometimes you'll get pages that list a business, its address and phone number, but you'll not get the actual web site for the place in the search results. Often, the only way you can find out where the web site is for a place is to ask them at the restaurant, or find it printed in a print advertisement. Then you just have to cross your fingers and hope it works.
Or, you can check out the following list of places that are all listed in the Guía Gastronómica del Estado de Jalisco a new publication put out by the office of the Secretary of Tourism, which seems to be basically a little information booklet paid for by advertisers. While it's far from exhaustive in what Guadalajara has to offer (let alone the entire state of Jalisco), a number of popular places have paid to put their name in, and it's worth checking out a few.
La Fonda de San Miguel
Karne Garibaldi
Carnes Asadas Rubens
La Gorda
Nude
Polibio
Rojo Café
Tinto y Blanco
The Men's Club
Mariscos Progreso
Casa Tequila
Casa Fuerte
Los Compadres
Hacienda Coyotes
Posted by crispy at August 17, 2006 08:35 PM
Comments
"I started to do a piece on the fact that many businesses here give URLs to websites in their print advertisements that do not work."
As a print-medium man, I object to the notion that the print advertisements do not work.
(Sorry, just being a jackass. I frequently struggle the proper in which with order to sentences words put in.)
Posted by: Mark Allen at August 20, 2006 06:43 PM
Heh - The Men's Club link came up "Server Not Found".....!
Posted by: carolco at August 20, 2006 08:24 PM
Mark Allen: Touché, newspaper man. And yes, for the other readers, what I meant was that the links don't work in the print ads. But then again, one could argue that print ads that have links to dead sites don't work as they should either. Okay, I'm pushing it, but the point could be made.
carolco: See what I mean? I verified the address for that link, and what I have in there is the correct link. While it worked the night I put it in there, it's not working now.
Posted by: Chris Coen at August 21, 2006 11:36 AM
I was sadly disappointed with the 'Nude' link,
this is the internet for god sake!
Posted by: akira at August 21, 2006 03:02 PM