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Monday, August 4, 2008

Local information on Google

Whenever we want to search for any information on internet the first view that flashes through our mind is google. The most popular search engine. In the starting of google it was only a site providing search facility to the users but today it is providing free facilities like gmail, google groups, google news, google calendar, google reader, google documents, google earth, google maps, google blogs (blogspot.com), image search, google videos, google knol, etc. The list is endless. many other sites are also providing the many of the above mentioned features or something like that but google is leader because of quality of its services and obviously the speed.

Sometimes you are not able to find appropriate information about neighbourhood market by visiting their but google shows many good results when you search. Here the point is that google still needs to do so much of work about providing local information to anyone. If you want to have the phone number and email of your nearest drycleaner or wants to know the phone number grocery shop you will feel helpless not only google but almost everywhere on net especially in cities of India.

I am living in Faridabad and if I want to search for some printer, book shop, Video shop, internet café etc. No site will be able to provide me right content. Either I have to talk to my neighbors/friends or go to the market and inquire about it.

Although google is giving much information about US cities but here in India google has not reached upto that level means in small cities. It is not able to provide help to students, housewives for their daily routine needs.

I think some research/initiative if taken about it will save lot of time of individual which can be used for more betterment of society.

Please send me your views on same.

7 comments:

  1. How can we enter in blog of note...

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  2. Hi Gurunath

    thanks for your comments

    do you see the local information on google article in blogs of note.

    please send me your feedback for other articles.

    seen your article on tata nano car
    good one

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  3. hey the article is good and so your thought-process. But I believe this is too trifle a thing for Google and they would not love to venture into such intricacies. For this we may have local search engines. For instance, in Hyderabad, I look-up to Just dial services to get any local info. One only has to call them up or log on and ask for a facility and specify locality (if one is specific about it). I am sure ur place too must have some such service.

    Got to say....... its a pleasure when people come up with problems and their solutions for the betterment

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  4. hey the article is good and so your thought-process. But I believe this is too trifle a thing for Google and they would not love to venture into such intricacies. For this we may have local search engines. For instance, in Hyderabad, I look-up to Just dial services to get any local info. One only has to call them up or log on and ask for a facility and specify locality (if one is specific about it). I am sure ur place too must have some such service.

    Got to say....... its a pleasure when people come up with problems and their solutions for the betterment

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  5. u know that's why there are some local search engines being developed by many start-ups

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  6. intellectivity you are very right and i am aware about some local justdial like services in delhi but sometimes they failed to provide information required for small things.

    Thanks for your feedback.

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  7. rahul yes but do you some site for faridabad.

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