Orange E-Business Advocate
Search Engines are really starting to innovate in the Local Search arena. The more I dive into this topic, the sooner I think this segment of the search engine industry is going to take off.
Take A9.com, Amazon's search engine. This past week, they unveiled a new feature of their Yellow Pages search:
The most powerful technology A9.com invented for Yellow Pages is “Block View,” which brings the Yellow Pages to life by showing a street view of millions of businesses and their surroundings. Using trucks equipped with digital cameras, global positioning system (GPS) receivers, and proprietary software and hardware, A9.com drove tens of thousands of miles capturing images and matching them with businesses and the way they look from the street.
So far, this has only been done in select cities, but expect your area to be "captured" soon.
Posted by joseph at January 29, 2005 03:52 PM