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MetaCarta Unchained and Unbundled

Posted: September 29th, 2008, 9:00pm CEST

Tags: Local Search

Today, MetaCarta announced some new ways to access the "secret sauce" of their search engine technology and launched their Geographic Search and Referencing Platform (GSRP). The bottom line here is that they have "disconnected" some of the primary tools from the basic platform. In other words, you can separately license their API's but still have access to their geo-referencing engine. So, if you only want to use their geotagging or query parsings applications in conjunction with the underlying geo-referencing engine software developers will now be able to license them as they need them. In the past, the six modules (geotagging, query parsing, geosearch, location finder, save-search-notification, and document density) that comprised the MetaCarta platform were highly inter-related and did not work independently. The objective for MetaCarta is to enable more developers and clients who may want to geo-enable lots of location-based, Web 2.0 applications. MetaCarta is also transforming itself from not just a product company but to offering software as a service (SaaS). MetaCarta says more details will be out on that later this fall. What will be challenging for MetaCarta is offering their applications through a SaaS transaction model based on CPM, which may be appropriate for some news organizations who may want to develop a map indexing view like the one they have on their home page.

Topix.net

MapQuest adds Citysearch to Results

Posted: August 25th, 2008, 8:13pm CEST

Tags: Local Search

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Denver DNC city guides

Posted: August 25th, 2008, 7:19pm CEST

Tags: Local Search

Those wandering around Denver for this week's DNC might be able to make use of some local city guides... Wcities has just come out with a Denver guide containing over 150 Points of Interest including...

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Social network meets search engine at Delver

Posted: July 15th, 2008, 3:11pm CEST

Tags: Local Search

An interesting symantic search application is now available at Delver. I just set my profile and started building my search network.. so for it looks quite clever albeit rather slow! The concept of...

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All Points Blog

Biggest Day in Cell Phone Nav use? Day before Mother's Day

Posted: June 3rd, 2008, 1:00pm CEST

Tags: Local Search

That's the word from Networks in Motion, which measured close to five million navigation requests. Besides directions people searched for florists and restaurants.

- TWICE

Topix.net

Marchex Goes Mobile

Posted: May 1st, 2008, 12:35pm CEST

Tags: Local Search

Marchex, Inc. , a local online advertising company and leading publisher of local content, today announced that it has extended its local advertising strategy to the mobile market, entering into agreements to ...

AnyGeo - Anything Geospatial

Local Search + maps GenieKnows Local - a decent start!

Posted: March 25th, 2008, 7:39pm CET

Tags: Local Search

I just received a heads-up from the developers of a new local search resource - one heavily focused on mapping - GenieKnows Local. At first glance it offers up a similar functionality to Google Maps...

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The Ultimate News Search Map

Posted: March 24th, 2008, 1:09pm CET

Tags: Local Search

It took a while to get here and many news sites and hackers have put together lesser implementations along the way, but Geosearch News is finally here.

MetaCarta's "demo" provides what may be the best geographic search tool for the largest changing digital data database of unstructured content on the planet. The site offers search by content and geography. And while at the smallest scales just AP and Reuters stories are offered, as you "zoom in" (either via map or keying in geography) more and more sources' stories appear on the map (some 1400 at last count). And, remember this is MetaCarta's "smart" geospatial searching, so it relies on extracting location information outside the first sentence and distinguishing Paris, France from Paris, Texas. It also know about "points of interest." That means each story can be "located" in more than one place. It also means that stories seemingly in unrelated geographies may pop up in a search.

I searched on my city, outside Boston and "run" hoping to find stories on running races in the last 24 hours. (You can set time parameters for up to month into the past.) I found a story from the Asbury Park Press (AP) about "State Police chief goes to Harvard." Why? The keyword "place" is noted as Kennedy School of Government as noted in this sentence: "The head of the New Jersey State Police, Col. Rick Fuentes, was among a select group of law enforcement professionals chosen for the Kennedy School of Government's Executive Session on Policing and Public Safety, a three-year working group that started this year." And, this sentence has the word "run": "Any time you run a major institution like the State Police, there is no question you have problems and concerns," Milgram said. "I hope Col. Fuentes and I will be measured against how we respond to those problems and concerns." In short, you need to be a good searcher to get what you want. But, that's true of any sort of search.

The source of each story is noted in the list of articles returned from a search. But sometimes those sources are quite cryptic such as "feeds.feedburner.com." I had to click through to the story to learn the source. Another challenge, be careful about searching too far back in time; some articles are "no longer available."One more challenge: there's limited help available - just an FAQ.

Still, there are some goodies hidden within! If you stay at the small scale and click on AP and Reuters articles, the full text appears in a new tab, in the app. And, there's a bonus with the AP/Reuters stories: every location in the article is put on a summary map called "Places in this Article" below which other stories from those wire services for those geographies appear. MetaCarta has a formal relationship with these wire services. Article from other sources, with which MetaCarta does not have such relationships, such as the New Jersey paper above, open in a new browser window without those goodies.

The app uses Google Maps as a front end, but any renderer could be used. Last time I saw it, it used Virtual Earth.

MetaCarta offers GeoSearch News to show off its technology and perhaps, to become the center of news searches. This is a quite powerful app, with lots of sources. Still, it takes some time to master.
Getting on the Map Without an Address

Posted: February 19th, 2008, 3:39pm CET

Tags: Local Search

Chris Silver Smith in the Locals Only column at Search Engine Land takes on the question: How do you get your business in Google Maps if you don't have a physical address? Who has that sort of problem? Contractors who work out of their trucks - painters, roofers, etc. - who live somewhere but cover a territory elsewhere and who many not want their home addresses listed. The short answer from Michael Jones: get a PO box.

Perhaps the next iteration of local search will be geared more to business territories. Pizza places can geographically draw where they deliver or painters can determine their range, etc.?

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9 items tagged "Local and Search"

Posted: September 29th, 2008, 9:00pm CEST

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Posted: August 25th, 2008, 8:13pm CEST

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Posted: August 25th, 2008, 7:19pm CEST

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Posted: July 15th, 2008, 3:11pm CEST

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Posted: June 3rd, 2008, 1:00pm CEST

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Posted: May 1st, 2008, 12:35pm CEST

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Posted: March 25th, 2008, 7:39pm CET

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Posted: March 24th, 2008, 1:09pm CET

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Posted: February 19th, 2008, 3:39pm CET

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