geographical search
Global Real Estate Portal Network Adds Google Maps to Enhance Customers' House Hunting Experience
White Paper REA deployed Google Maps API Premier, allowing company to embed Google Maps into its web portals to guide users in search for the perfect home by giving fast, detailed, visually rich geographical data. [23 Jun 2009]
Google Earth maps onto the iPhone
News Google has already customised some of its websites for display on the iPhone but now the company has produced a handheld version of its Google Earth geographical software. Though you can search for... [27 Oct 2008]
How Zavvi lost its Virginity
Comment Each store has its own front page on the site, so that the online presence can be tailored to the specific geographical areas they represent. Part of that project has been to build up solid, long term relationships with... [09 Oct 2008]
Google Android - winning apps are location-based
News Beetaun is "a social network around geographical content", according to its developers. The search giant received 1,788 submissions that were reviewed by some 100 judges and last week gave $25,000 apiece... [20 May 2008]
Google develops 'web 2.0' encyclopaedia
News The goal is for knols to cover all topics, from scientific concepts, to medical information, from geographical and historical, to entertainment, from product information, to how-to-fix-it instructions. [17 Dec 2007]
Nokia maps $8.1bn Navteq buy
News By joining forces with Navteq, we will be able to bring context and geographical information to a number of our internet services with accelerated time to market. Using the handset's embedded software, consumers can view... [02 Oct 2007]
Cheat Sheet: Data Protection Act 1998
Cheat Sheet They don't need to be filed by name but could, for example, be filed by amount of business transacted, geographical location or type of business.silicon.com's Full Disclosure campaign - what we are asking for.silicon.com... [28 Aug 2007]
Geographical Statistics and Characteristics of P2P Query Strings
White Paper This paper develops a highly parallelized architecture capable of capturing an unprecedented amount of geographical-identified queries. This paper presents a large-scale measurement study of search terms... [23 May 2007]
Blackpool Council boosted by geo database
News The geographical database, developed with geographical information software company GGP, has brought together information previously held across seven separate datasets. For instance, the council website... [20 Feb 2007]
Google turns into teachers' pet
News According to Google's site: "We think of this site as a platform of teaching resources - for everything from blogging and collaborative writing to geographical search tools and 3D modelling software -... [12 Oct 2006]
Skype's CEO: 'Phone calls will be free by 2015'
News Skype is working with emergency services organisations to come up with such a solution, Zennström explained, and emphasised the need to develop a way to map geographical locations over IP networks. While Skype now has... [24 May 2005]
Update: Symbian names new CEO
News That broader geographical reach made the company a ripe takeover target, eventually resulting in its $41m sale to US-based Evolving Systems. Symbian was known to have used headhunters Russell Reynolds in its... [18 May 2005]
5 years ago… Search engines are rubbish
News The execs at the Googleplex have opted, on one hand, to get more niche as Giles suggested, with plans to offer personalised and geographical searches. 09.07.2004:Internet search engines are struggling to... [09 Jul 2004]
Yahoo! takes a leaf out of Google's book
News has introduced a raft of new tools in recent months, including features to search for and compare product data, narrow queries keyed to geographical locations and searches accessible in instant-messenger... [04 Nov 2003]
Google gears up for geographical search
News Google is experimenting with search results tailored to a person's geographic location, following a similar move by rival Overture Services. Google said on Monday that Google Labs, the search company's... [23 Sep 2003]
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