On Fri, 8 Nov 2002, Paul Maddox wrote: > Hi all, > > Wow, someone posted something! > > How many subscribers are there? What's everyone working on at the > moment?
I've been working, very slowly, on a geographic search engine and geo-enhanced http. A demo is at geotags.com Since it depends on specific HTML metadata, penetration is extremely tiny. (With metadata, you hope the author read the instructions. With data mining, you don't know that a zipcode, phone number, city etc. the robot found on the page has anything at all to do with the page subject; it might be the author's, or where he went to school. Though it allegedly works quite well for some "accomodation" sites.) One idea is for geo-enabled wireless PDAs or laptops, but it's got hung up in the IETF Geo privacy committee (geopriv). -- Andrew Daviel, TRIUMF, Canada also Vancouver Webpages _______________________________________________ Robots mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.mccmedia.com/mailman/listinfo/robots
