June 22, 2005

Geography . . . geography . . . geography . . .

Apparently MSN is joining Yahoo! and Google in the local search business, according to this TechSpot item: MSN to offer search results narrowed to local geographies. Why?

The move is seen as an important one, since there is a growing industry focus on the ability to search within individual communities.
I would say the "focus" is probably more of a "realization" or coming back down to earth (so to speak) of an industry that presumed it had ridded the world of the merely physical.

We are corporeal. We live in a physical world. We eat physical things. That's not going to change -- even with Internet 2.0.

Posted by Grayson at June 22, 2005 07:46 AM