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You do realize by 'gay' I mean a man who has sex with other men?
Google Local
http://local.google.com/lochp
First time i have seen this and its looking pretty cool after a couple of searches relating to our location.
Looks like Google might be in the process of rolling out some new GEO::IP based stuff.
What are your thoughts on this? Just a one-off or part of a much larger project?
I can certainly see the benefit of being able to search for pages specific to your area however, i wonder if this is going to open up a new phase of GEO::IP spamming too?
Regards,
Lee
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You do realize by 'gay' I mean a man who has sex with other men?
Interesting..
I just dug a little deeper into this and it seems that if you list an 'address' on the pages of your site you;ll likely be added to the 'local' listings.
I bet thats going to become the newest tool for SE spammers, adding hundreds of pages of addresses to their sites to get top listings in the local engine.
Regards,
Lee
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Hmm, that's definately interesting. Definately a big step towards taking the giant overwhelming trashpile the internet has become and turning it into a more personal experience. In the old days, "world wide" had it's appeal, now I think people would much rather have the option of making their web surfing a localized experience.
You are right about the spamming though. It seems like the only way this could work would be if it was a dmoz type thing, with editors in every local. Maybe if they required that websites provide a local contact phone number with site submission, and require phone confirmation, so they could tell by area code if the listing was legit.
If there is a way to fuck it up and make it useless, people will find it.
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Hmm,
We kind of have this service already with www.sensis.com.au they are the major provider of telephone books in Aus, along with other information services. It was only launched a couple of months back but it's great.
Cheers,
Allan
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