In one of my previous pots I shared with you an idea about providing a location based vision to the Internet.
Today I have found some similar initiatives:
1 ) GeoURL
"GeoURL.org is a location-to-URL reverse directory. This will allow you to find URLs by their proximity to a given location. Find your neighbor's blog, perhaps, or the web page of the restaurants near you. GeoURL is listing 1,681,046 sites". On the image you can see the red points representing blogs in the world. So many points!
2) A2B
A2B.cc is much more elaborated than GeoURL
A2B provides a location based search engine which allows you finding the nearest web sites to your location.
A2B.cc also allows mobile searching and works with free GPS software (See our post on GPS software)
It seems to me it does not work very well because I am in Shanghai and the first site I get is about a the weather at a UK base in Antarctica!!!
3) Local.com
Local.com is another location based engine with a more refined aspect. However, it does not even support IP geolocation. You have to write the city where you are.
I tried to find restaurants here in Shanghai but the search engine says it does not know where Shanghai is (???).
But they are working hard on this because they have just been granted a US patent for "indexing and retrieving web-related information by geographical location". Local search is a patent-mined field!: Google, Local.com, Verizon, Geomas (this is another competitor but it seems to me taht their business model is more like selling software, not really web2.0) and much more
5) Loki.com
Loki.com is a location based search and navigation toolbar. But you have to download it and I am too lazy for this!
6) Google
What to say? Read it in this blog
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I will try to find more information about this. Probably in pages related to the Where 2.0 Conference in California
The idea about location based Internet is not bad! but these implementations don't seem too me very attractive. I wouldn't be a user of any of these applications.
I bet there must be another way of doing it
