Location Aware Mobile Search: Pages Vs Places
Ah the random stuff you think about when you can’t sleep at night. Tonight’s edition for me… how search engines work and how that may potentially translate to creating a search capability around people visiting places… you know places like gas stations and hamburger joints. Yeah I know, I am getting sleepy too!
I’ll be honest I don’t know very much about search engines, a few years ago I printed out a copy of Larry and Serge’s Stanford paper on The Anatomy of a Large-Scale Hypertextual Web Search Engine and read it on a cross country flight for a job interview on a related subject… needless to say I didn’t get the job and I pretty much dropped any more digging on the subject.
But after attending last weeks MetaPlaces conference and listening to the various speakers, including one on the opportunities in mobile search and also a refresher on Sense Networks, the subject is back top of mind again. Read more
