Google Localized

3 Comments By Chris Tingom on March 17, 2004

Check out Local.Google.com which lets you “find local businesses and services on the web.”

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  • Comment posted by mark
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  • WOW, can’t wait until it accesses UK based sites – the results are a little random tho ?

    mark

The previous Comment was posted on March 18, 2004 at 2:46 am

  • Comment posted by Chris
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  • Hi Mark, I agree. It’s a little bit random. I think that’s because it’s pulling data off of web sites, and not a Yellow Pages Directory type database. So the data is incomplete – it only returns results if a web site somewhere lists the zip code and the search term.

    With time it will improve.

The previous Comment was posted on March 18, 2004 at 9:56 am

  • Comment posted by Bill Brown
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  • Actually, Chris, it munges Yellow Pages information with its index to create the results:

    How does it work? Is it like Yellow Pages sites I’ve seen elsewhere?

    “Google Local takes a new approach to helping users find geographic information online. We analyze the content in our index of more than 4 billion web pages and combine that information with Yellow Pages data to provide the most comprehensive local search experience available.”

    -from the Google Local FAQ

The previous Comment was posted on March 18, 2004 at 2:03 pm

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