Anyone using geo-tagging?
SEW Forum debate from July restarts, Andrew Goodman posts that "In recent conversation with Sukhinder Singh of Google I heard that the company is very concerned to figure out how richer data about local businesses could be accessed by a search tool. If there is no way of "enriching" the current local listings, then online local listings will not improve much over the previous generation of standard flat analog local listings. Obviously, some contextual info in the form of reviews, mapping, etc. can be added, but at some point, businesses will need to participate in providing more information themselves.Here, the old problems can apply of course: what about geo-tag spam. The data need to be verifiable. Exact same problem with keyword metadata on the public Internet.
This topic seems to be of critical importance right now."
posted by Jen @ 10:31 AM
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