Comments on: Single Search Box

By: Jim Switzer

Jim Switzer — Sun, 03 Jan 2010 02:38:49 +0000

This demo doesn’t seem to be working anymore.

By: Burton Floyd, Jr.

Burton Floyd, Jr. — Sat, 25 Jul 2009 13:27:43 +0000

Charles, Now you are cooking with a single search box.BUT you are still using city/state (cumbersome entries) and archaic zip codes (that work for my town but not for a new town,ie. on the road what is the zip of this place?) To make local truly local- We have developed a data base of new address codes that replace the zips. The advantage is you always know how to address the business on the ground and find that business on the web using the same new address code from our proprietary database.It is like you have a photographic memory and can remember the 50,000 zip codes after only 30 seconds of instruction.If coherent, a traveler always knows where he is on the ground and most important, how he can quickly apply the known to his local search for web locations he sees on the ground.A completely new concept I would be happy to discuss with you in more detail

By: dblitz

dblitz — Wed, 22 Jul 2009 17:52:13 +0000

Thanks Ethan. We are looking at it. Our parser should certainly be able to handle this.

By: Ethan

Ethan — Mon, 20 Jul 2009 15:27:33 +0000

Charles,
I searched for taxi using Ft Lauderdale and it did not pick the Ft.. are there any fix coming to pick the st and ft and so on?

By: Saphfire Wedgeworth

Saphfire Wedgeworth — Sat, 11 Jul 2009 15:12:25 +0000

I searched for Fish Pot, Bessemer, AL. Worked fine, but why listing of sites without Fish or Pot. I guess search decided to list food places.

By: Al

Al — Wed, 11 Mar 2009 17:20:15 +0000

It was not able to parse chicago as a location, but did work as expected when I entered chicago, il.

By: Mitch

Mitch — Fri, 23 Jan 2009 20:08:21 +0000

Im am an almost exclusive user of google for everything including searching for listings. I’m finding this blog interesting. I work for a cmr in YP field in graphics for Print. My employers are going into interactive. I never thought of using YP.com for web search to be honest.
I guess my input on this is from the perspective of google maps which i use all the time. Basiclly when i do a seach for anything in the google maps search bar I type in ” what near where” i.e “hotdogs near 1234 Street blvd, City ca” or “pizza near current location” for iphone. Because for the keyword “near” it always gives me result within the radius of the address or gps location. I dont know if this is a well known thing to use the keyword for google but I dont really see anyone using it. If you can introduce a way to use these “keywords” then im sure your engine would produce better results.

I hope you guy find the formula for my sake

By: Charles Hornberger

Charles Hornberger — Wed, 14 Jan 2009 16:47:22 +0000

@warren: I don’t think our geographic index has an entry for “hot springs, az” — from what I can tell, that’s a pretty obscure spot to go for a hot dog:

http://www.yellowpages.com/maps?section=maps&textAddress=Hot+Springs,+AZ

http://maps.google.com/maps?f=q&source=s_q&hl=en&geocode=&q=hot+springs,+az&sll=37.0625,-95.677068&sspn=40.052282,62.841797&ie=UTF8&ll=33.045508,-109.445801&spn=5.312306,7.855225&z=7&iwloc=addr

By: warren

warren — Wed, 14 Jan 2009 15:13:53 +0000

tried hot dogs in hot Springs AZ (pretty tricky!!) it deciphered it as Hot Dog in Hot Springs Montana. No matter what state I put in it did not seem to read the state. Otherwise cool

By: Coby Randquist

Coby Randquist — Mon, 12 Jan 2009 05:54:10 +0000

Rosalie,

I’m glad you were happy with the results, and thanks for the feedback.

The Oregon Coast is beautiful.