Matt McGee does a nice roundup of some obscure search engines over at SEL. Many have a local element. One that I thought was cool is 2itch, which also offers a mobile site.
The idea is simple: businesses that are open 24 hours. Very useful to those up/out late.
There’s something of a model here for YP and newspapers, which have lots of data and could build out high-utility “verticals” like this.
December 30, 2008 at 12:35 am |
Cool???
This is a look-what-I-can-do-mashup used to spray ad words onto and maybe make some $$.
You should check the expiration date on your egg nog if you think this is anything more than an afternoon in the dorm room project by a sophomore CS student that ran out of weed.
December 30, 2008 at 12:48 am |
It may be amateurish in some respects, but it’s useful information. Harsh comments.