I’ve hardly used Microsoft’s local live service, so I thought it was time that I gave it a go, and what better initial test to use than to enter the address of my local supermarket? It was built just over a year ago, so it’s a fairly good test to see how up to date the local engines are.
No results found, try it with a space?
Ok, now what? Hmm, no results found, am I looking for the location for Safe Ways?
Well, apparently it’s located in another state
Maybe it’s in there if I just search for the singular Safeway?
Nope, but it wants to know if I’m looking for the location of safeway, let’s say yes and click there.
Ok great, according to local.live my local Safeway is located in French Guiana. So it looks like I’ll have to switch to Giant, or that new Harris Teeter they’re building down the road.
Yes, I know that the last search that is being done is a location match search, despite the term being in the business name field. Either MSN needs to expand their dataset to include one of the larger grocery chains in the US, or they need to refine their search algorithm to not look for data entered in the business name field as a misspelling of a town name in South America or India… I have to say based on this that I’m not terribly impressed with local.live, although the results are mildly amusing, and if you ever wanted to know the place in the world that has the closest name to your company you now have a tool that will do that…
April 12th, 2007 - 8:06 am
Now you can search for Business addresses, Big landmarks with clear maps of Hyderabad. Ilaka-team has implemented this
http://www.ilaka.in
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April 12th, 2007 - 8:15 am
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