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Food is one of the most social experiences we have. Yummly has been pioneering recipe search & discovery, and has seen tremendous success doing so – with over 4 million monthly unique visitors after just over a year from launch. To further recipe discovery, we’ve always known that deeper social integrations would be required.

Yummly is excited to be among the first apps launching for Facebook Timeline. Now you’ll be able to add your Yummly activities directly to your Timeline, and share two key food actions with your Facebook friends. First, you can ‘Yum’ recipes when they look or sound great. Second, you’ll be able to tell your friends what you’re making with the ‘I’m Cooking’ button.

These actions can be seen by your friends as they happen on the Facebook ticker, and will be saved for you in the Yummly app – creating one of the first social recipe boxes on the web.

Not only will this be great for people on Facebook, it will be an incredible boost for the food bloggers whose recipes now appear on Yummly. One of the biggest struggles for these great sites is being discovered. Small publishers such as David Leite of Leite’s Culinaria and Jennifer Segal of Once Upon a Chef will now have great opportunities for social discovery through Yummly and Facebook.

Yummly’s integration with Facebook will make food more social than ever as we continue our efforts to pioneer recipe discovery. We hope everyone loves this new integration

You can start using these features immediately.

Here are two of many great recipes on Yummly from David Leite and Jennifer Segal that you can ‘Yum’ right now!

Warm Chicken with Green Beans and Chard (from Leite’s Culinaria)Warm Chicken with Green Beans and Chard  

 

Chocoholic Muffins (from Once Upon a Chef)Chocoholic Muffins
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Yummly announces new app for Facebook Timeline

Palo Alto, CA – January 18, 2012 – Yummly has been pioneering recipe search and discovery, and has seen tremendous success doing so with over 4 million monthly unique visitors after just over a year from launch. Today, Yummly is excited to announce a new app for Facebook Timeline.

Now over 800 million Facebook members will be able to express their favorite recipes on their Timeline and share two key food actions with their Facebook friends. First, people can ‘Yum’ recipes when they look or sound great. Second, they will be able to tell their friends what they are making with the ‘I’m Cooking’ button.

This activity can be seen by friends as they happen on the Facebook ticker, and will be saved in the Yummly app – creating one of the first social recipe boxes on the web.

Not only will this integration be great for people on Facebook, it will be an incredible boost for the food bloggers whose recipes now appear on Yummly. One of the biggest struggles for these great sites is being discovered. Small publishers such as David Leite of Leite’s Culinaria and Jennifer Segal of Once Upon a Chef will now have great opportunities for social discovery through Yummly and Facebook.

“Yummly’s integration with Facebook will make food more social than ever as we continue our efforts to pioneer recipe search and discovery. We hope everyone loves this new integration,” said co-founder and CEO David Feller.

Find out what’s cooking at Yummly: try the Yummly app on Facebook, visit the Yummly blog, or connect on Facebook.

About Yummly
Launched in 2010 by foodies on a mission to invent a better way to find recipes, Yummly is the world’s only taste-based recipe search site. Headquartered in the heart of Silicon Valley, Yummly is backed by First Round Capital, Harrison Metal Capital, Intel Capital, and angel investors.

Yummly is a trademark of Yummly, Inc. and may be registered in some jurisdictions. All other trade names or trademarks used herein are recognized to be the property of their respective owners. All rights reserved.

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Yummly’s on Fire – Turns Up the Heat in Recipe Search with Impressive Growth and Features

Taste-based recipe search engine reaches 2 million monthly visitors; adds spiciness

Palo Alto, CA (PRWEB) August 24, 2011

Yummly (http://www.yummly.com), the world’s only taste-based recipe search engine, spices things up today by adding “spiciness” to the set of tastes the it analyzes. The site’s revolutionary taste-matching technology is a hit with cooks everywhere. Just last month, the site’s monthly unique visitor count reached over 2 million visitors for the first time.

“Yummly’s mission is to make peoples’ lives easier by helping them find the best recipes to match their tastes,” said co-founder and CEO David Feller. “We do this by understanding recipes as more than just text.”

Yummly’s secret sauce in achieving this mission is its taste-matching technology – which is fueled by Yummly’s ingredient database. Yummly’s technology and algorithms generate a profile of each recipe. This profile includes an analysis of the recipe’s ingredients, applicable diets and allergies, nutrition, tastes (sweet, sour, bitter, salty, savory — and now, spicy), techniques, cuisine, course, time-to-prepare, price and more. Best of all, each of these characteristics is searchable. To populate its recipe database, Yummly searches out and identifies recipes all across the web.

Today, Yummly is announcing the addition of spiciness to its ever-expanding search feature set. Yummly’s technology can now determine the relative spiciness of hundreds of thousands of recipes in its database. Whether cooks are looking for something fiery hot, a recipe with a little kick, or one that is nice and cool, Yummly can now help them find the best recipe to meet their tastes.

“We’ve gotten some heat for not having this feature,” said Feller. “It really lit a fire under us to get it done. You can now refine your recipe searches based on how spicy the recipes are. Whether you like the heat of a scotch bonnet or the mellow spice of pimento, you’ll love using the spiciness filter.”

Taste-based searching has been a hit with the cooking populace. Along with spicy search, Yummly is announcing phenomenal growth. In the year since it has launched, Yummly has grown to over 2 million monthly unique visitors, and there’s no sign it’s slowing down.

“Yummly is quickly becoming a starting point for recipe search – it’s a testament to the product and technology we’ve built. The food space is ripe for innovation, and we’re delivering what consumers have been asking for. No longer is it good enough to rely on keyword search – you need to know that ‘vegetarian’ means no meat,” said Feller.

Find out what’s cooking at Yummly (http://www.yummly.com): visit the Yummly blog connect on Facebook, or follow on Twitter.

About Yummly
Launched in 2010 by foodies on a mission to invent a better way to find recipes, Yummly (http://www.yummly.com) is the world’s only taste-based recipe search site. Headquartered in the heart of Silicon Valley, Yummly is backed by First Round Capital, Harrison Metal Capital, Intel Capital, and angel investors.

Yummly is a trademark of Yummly, Inc. and may be registered in some jurisdictions. All other trade names or trademarks used herein are recognized to be the property of their respective owners. All rights reserved.

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