Keep It Simple, Sergey - Mobile Local Search

As we have suggested before, William Slawski and Approach to Improving Location Information Accuracy. Part of this covered the following: Creating a Location Repository The focus of this document involves creating a location repository, where it would try to match up location information favorable to computers, such as latitude/longitude or GPS coordinates, with information more likely to be used by human searchers. This system would allow for retrieving location identifiers for a variety of applications, so it can be used for many purposes with minimal effort. It really is most impressive how Google has created this global computing facility that can attempt to catalogue all the information that exists. My mental picture is of SuperGoogleWoman wandering the universe seeing where she can apply her universal multi-purpose super-tools to solve problems. Nevertheless I'm surprised if the search for a local pizza restaurant needs such incredible computing power. This isn't rocket science. So how can we Keep It Simple, Sergey. Well we want something that is very easy to use for both seekers and their targets. It should be a minimal approach and it should give street addresses since our virtual search is just a precursor to a physical search as we often may wish to visit. One approach would be the Comments Add to Del.icio.us | Digg | Reddit | Furl Bookmark Murdok: Barry Welford, President of BPWrap, The Other Bloke's Blog