Local Search Engines is the new trend

[chadb]

Fellow members,

Local search engines are going to be the standard for targeting information for people looking to comit to digital being the way they connect to information! We all can see this in i tunes, i tv, google.com, yahoo.com, and new:: fastjaxx.com!!

[Mod Disclaimer - Poster is a developer at fastjaxx]

New to the playing feild is the idea that the internet is really not legally regulated and google will bust soon. They are commited to going local. Local has a lucrative venture written all over it. www.blog.fastjaxx.com has some good articles related to dedicated research concerning why local is an oil feild waiting to be tapped into.

The yellow pages for a long time had the phone book, which covered local. But there is only one issue. The book is too damn big. I cannot even lug that thing around and you still have to scale down information realted to what you are looking for. Too many times I have found what I was looking for and the nubmer was disconnected or they don't exist anymore. Then the launch of the www.talkingphonebook.com really was an effort to safe their customers with a digital means to locate information locally. But the inter-phase they have breaks many rules and is not very easy to use. Also there were many dead links just like in the phone book.

All in all, it is my opinion the local search engines will take off by the end of the 2007 year and 2008 with youtube.com's popularity to Americans and other countries all over the world to communicate, thus making the human networking and re-vamping communication..................

-Buie-

[beu]

Google has local built into web search and mobile via base, maps as well as 800-GOOG-411.

[chadb]

Then why does google worry about local searches and are buying companies in Austrlia because they are nervous about people starting their own in there cities and google loosing that marjority market share. I mean there is no way one company can cover every website, every new business, every state, every country. Like I don't know they have local; dude when I was 14 I knew about "google" and I have seen local be the better way to go and after I finished college in 2002 the idea struck me way before they tried to do local. Tell me go to google. Type in Jacksonville restuarants and look through 500 pages worth of information and tell me if you found Jamie's Seafood(i know why they don't pull up). Which by the way is a really good place to eat and they are here local. You will not even find the most accurate information on google map b/c it has to be updated. With the way real estate is booming here in jax, fl there is no way they can keep up!! Also why does google have an open source project to let people list their website's to their engine and feed all other search engines like msn, aol, netscape, earthlink, and ect. Or why google lab's is letting people use their guis to make "search engines" b/c they want to get something for nothing and they know they cannot tackle it under economic defintion.

If you would think first about what I am saying is that their is opportunity for people all over the states to run their own bots(which is relatively cheap anyway the whole software thing is a joke) and connect back to something similar to the structure this "big guys" are doing and compete against in their efforts to reach out locally. That is all I am saying in the end if that similar structure, google.com , and ther rest of the search engine can be feed by our searches and or buy out local guis to maintain their stock value??

-chad b-

[beu]

You get 500 pages of results for the term "Jacksonville restuarants" because there is a city named Jacksonville in NC, OR, AR, TX, AL, IL and FL. Also because you have misspelled restaurants!

Try something like:
32210 "seafood restaurant"

By the way, I was born in Jacksonville (Bapt. Hosp, I-95 & St Johns River) and my family still lives there. I've eaten an Jamie's and was surprised it was not listed. I called 411 and they have no listing either. So, I bet the company name is not "Jamie's" because I'm sure they have a phone.

Issues like this are what make local search so hard. There is a lot more to doing local search and doing it well than meets the eye. Either way, good luck!

[chadb]

I see most of you are offended by textual information. Maybe the fact that I am trying to set a better standard for connecting to a better source of information on the world wide web, makes everyone here on this site uncomfortable, then arrest me. Let's me know what true people there are in this jazzy upty society. If any would like to have a real conversation about developing better ways to search information locally give me a shout. Peace


-Chad B-

"If everyone is thinking alike then someone is not thinking!"

General SS. Patten "Leader against the Germans WWII" :confused:

[mick g]

I am trying to set a better standard for connecting to a better source of information on the world wide web

in that case maybe you had better fix all the 404 file not found links from your "open source directory" ;)

[livingearth]

I seriously doubt google is going to lose majority market share anytime soon..
Still local directories are useful and offer more indepth potential to the end user simply because local operators have knowledge of the trends in their own cities...