[OSGeo-Discuss] Search engines and spatial context...

[Gary Lang]

Suffice it to say that anything that some code can figure out about you is used to generate targeted advertising.


-----Original Message-----
From:	Ari Jolma [mailto:ari.jolma at tkk.fi]
Sent:	Sat 6/3/2006 6:03 AM
To:	discuss at mail.osgeo.org
Cc:	Steve Lime
Subject:	Re: [OSGeo-Discuss] Search engines and spatial context...
Gary Lang kirjoitti:
> The spatial context they *do* use for sure is a really smart set of
> text-parsing address-extraction algorithms. This is what gmail uses to
> generate localized advertising and links to Google Maps, for example.
>
> They have also licensed patents and maybe some code from a company that
> does derives location from IP addresses reasonably accurately,
> regardless of IP registration data.
>   

Does for example google use this in searches now? Lately I've noticed 
that my searches return things that are close to me or at least in 
Finnish language. Perhaps they just use the language information. 
Sometimes it's good to find things that are close but in the long run 
that might distort my world view, especially if the search engine does 
not tell me what it does.

Ari

> -----Original Message-----
> From: Steve Lime [mailto:Steve.Lime at dnr.state.mn.us] 
> Sent: Friday, June 02, 2006 9:59 AM
> To: Gary Lang; discuss at mail.osgeo.org
> Subject: RE: [OSGeo-Discuss] Search engines and spatial context...
>
> That's what I'd like to find out, been thinking about this for years.
> Virtually everything is spatial so:
>
>   1) do engines look for non-explicit spatial context
>   2) do they leverage explicit spatial context (e.g. document metadata
> or actual spatial data formats)
>   3) do they even deal with new stuff like GeoRSS
>
> I would assume that Google and others do at least some of this, but
> perhaps not. Wouldn't it be sweet to have georeferenced document index
> (GeoIndex) and a GeoSpider to build it. The Alexandria Digital Library
> has definitly operated in that space but seemingly with more traditional
> spatial information. I'm curious about regular old web pages, sensor
> feeds, news stories and such.
>
> Steve
>
>   
>>>> gary.lang at autodesk.com 6/2/2006 11:47:00 AM >>>
>>>>         
> Interesting. Do you mean that googlebot now reads this sort of metadata?
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Steve Lime [mailto:Steve.Lime at dnr.state.mn.us] 
> Sent: Friday, June 02, 2006 9:36 AM
> To: discuss at mail.osgeo.org 
> Subject: [OSGeo-Discuss] Search engines and spatial context...
>
> Hi folks: Does anyone know of documents that define the extent that
> spatial context (e.g. place names, area codes, addresses) are exploited
> by major search engines?
>
> Steve
>
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Prof. Ari Jolma
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