Systems and methods for determining related places

A system for determining similar places, the system comprising:

• a processor;
• a memory;
• and
• a module that is stored in the memory and that is configured, when executed by the processor, to:
• receive an indication of a first place, the indication received from a mobile device of a user;
• determine a second place that is similar to the first place, based on concept vectors associated with the first place and the second place that are derived from content items that describe the first place and the second place;
• and
• provide an indication of the second place for display on the mobile device.

A non-transitory computer-readable medium including contents that are configured, when executed, to cause a computing system to perform a method for determining similar places, the method comprising:

• providing a location-based recommendation to a client device of a user, by electronically:
• receiving an indication of a first place, the indication received from the client device;
• determining multiple places that is similar to the first place, based on properties of the first place and the multiple places that are derived from content items that describe the first place and the multiple places;
• ordering the multiple places, based on a combination of distance between a current location of a mobile device of the user and locations of each of the multiple places, on similarity between each of the multiple places and the first place, and on similarity between each of the multiple places and the user;
• and
• providing an indication of the ordered multiple places for display on the client device.