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- <p>Not (thank God) pubs with Internet terminals, but the growing number of guides in
- electronic form. Johansens
- offers its guide on CD-ROM, while you can stroll through other guides via online services. An oddity in the
- CD-ROM market is Le Routiers as part of Microsoft AutoRoute Express. I haven't included this in the paper
- guides as has too many cafΘs and restaurants, but it does provide an excellent example of how an electronic
- guide should work. Click on a location, then drag a slider to say how far you want to travel: you are told what is
- within that radius and can simply click on a place to get an effective description, with a short list of food
- specialities though no mention of beer. The bizarre thing about Le Routiers is that most pubs in the other guides
- aren't here and vice versa. It's as if the French truckers' bible lived in a different world.
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- Of the UK's big three added value services, CompuServe impresses most with the Good Pub Guide, available
- on Internet (but only via CompuServe) at
- http://www.compuserve.co.uk/gpg.
- It's a shame though that you can only search on county, town or pub name - there's an opportunity to be much
- more flexible online. MSN has nothing to offer yet, while AOL features the Time Out guides to London,
- Glasgow and Edinburgh. These are pretty good in content, not dissimilar to the Good Pub Guide, and can search
- by name or location, but nothing fancier. There's also a facility for members to post their own reviews, though
- when I checked there were only two of them for London. Putting 'Pub Guide' into a search engine comes up
- with plenty of little local guides - e.g. the pubs of Maidenhead (no, really), but little wide coverage. I'm not totally
- convinced by the Licensee pub guide's <a href="http://www.licensee.co.uk/search.htm">
- http://www.licensee.co.uk/search.htm</a> claim to be 'the ultimate guide' as
- it hasn't got much content, and some of the featured pubs would raise the eyebrows of the mainstream guides.
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