What it's like to use the social life-organizing app Snapchat is buying for $200 million

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Snapchat is dropping a cool $200 million on buying Vurb — a search and recommendation app.

The news was broken by tech industry site The Information, and independently confirmed by Business Insider.

Vurb basically helps you plan your social life: Giving recommendations on what you can do in your local area, offering ways to talk to your friends, and letting you search for activities and services. 

But what is Vurb, which is available on both iOS and Android, actually like to use?

Read on, we've got you covered:

It's often described as a search engine.

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Vurb is sometimes described as a "search engine" in a similar vein to Google — and on booting up the app for the first time and making an account, you're greeted with a great big search bar.

It also comes full of recommendations.

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Below the search bar sits a whole load of recommendations for activities in the area, from events to cafés, from new movies to the TV that's airing tonight.

And you can customise what sort of recommendations you see by changing your preferences.

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