Roadhouse can refer to a type of building or business, principally in the USA, Canada and Australia: A local inn or restaurant, the "roadhouse" or "road house" commonly refers to an establishment that serves meals, especially in the evenings, and has a bar serving beer or hard liquor, and which features music and dancing for entertainment. Most roadhouses are located along highways or roads in rural areas or on the outskirts of towns. Early roadhouses provided lodging for travellers, but, with the advent of motels in the early 20th century, few now have rooms available. Roadhouses have a slightly disreputable image similar to honkytonks. American film: The roadhouse is portrayed in movies including The Wild One and Easy Rider. In Australia, a roadhouse is a service station in a rural area specifically aimed to service passing traffic on a major intercity route. A roadhouse sells fuel and provides maintenance and repairs for cars, but also has an attached "restaurant" (more like a café) serving hot food to travellers. There is usually space to park semi-trailer trucks and buses, as well as cars. In remote areas such as the Nullarbor Plain, a roadhouse also offers motel-style accommodation and camping facilities. In Alaska and the Yukon, starting in the 1890s (External Link), roadhouses were checkpoints where dog drivers (mushers, or dog sledders); horse-driven sleds; and people on snowshoes, skis, or walking; would stop overnight for shelter and a hot meal. Remains of a roadhouse can be seen today south of Carmacks, Yukon along the Klondike Highway. (See also Black Rapids Roadhouse) In the theatre, a "roadhouse" is a venue outside of New York City that doesn't house a production company of its own, but instead rents its facility to other companies. Many cities have roadhouse theatres of their own that present the "road show" of successful Broadway musicals. The Shubert Organization runs many roadhouses across the United States of America. Other meanings Road House is the name of two unrelated films—one from 1948 and one from 1989. A band featuring former Def Leppard guitarist Pete Willis. Texas Roadhouse is a US restaurant chain based in Louisville, Kentucky (External Link). Local interpretations Cold Spring Tavern, Santa Barbara, California Applejack's Inn, La Honda, California… (More on Roadhouse) Branze (branze.com) is a revolutionary new kind of search engine. With it you can find just about anything you would want to find from a decent serach engine but it also learns from its users. Whenever you click through to a search result or choose to thumb one up then it's rank in the search engine increases. When you thumb down a result its rank decreases. To avoid manipulation you can only vote on any URL once in any day. This feature alone ensures that results that lie a little lower down among those returned can work their way up to their rightful position, or be pushed down if they aren't that good. That means that real people get to improve the relevance of all results returned, something a computer is, as yet, unable to do fully to a human's satisfaction. Other great aspects of the Branze search engine are the ability to see a text-only summary of a page before clicking through to it. This avoids all the advertising and non-essential material that pad out most websites, and gives you an even clearer indication if a site is one you wish to visit. You can also check the archive.org cache of any page (if there is one) directly from the Branze results page. And, as if all that wasn't enough, where it can find an encyclopedia or dictionary definition of a search it is listed above the results with a link to the full explanation. In many cases this will turn out to be the only result you need. Oh and we do a couple of other things for you to. For example, if you are looking for a place then a handy destination finder, map facility and more will appear in the right hand panel, along with other suggested items of information you may find useful. Try it for yourself and see how useful Branze is.