Northern Light lacked the mapping that Google offers, but another company predates Google with this feature: Lasoo. Lasoo is gone, and Overture's local product doesn't involve crawler-based listings. Lasoo was never a major search player but...
Lasoo was never a major search player but instead hoped to partner with others, as I wrote at the time: Ideally, we'd see Lasoo or a similar service as a complement to a regular search engine. Lasoo is gone, and Overture's local product doesn't...
By the way, Overture is not using another backfill option available, the crawler-based technology of Lasoo. Lasoo is a company I wrote about back in mid-2001 that allowed you to view web search results presented in map format.
Another "purer" geo search service is offered by Lasoo, which allows you to click on a map of the world and "lasoo" a particular area, then restrict your search to that area. Lasoo http://www.lasoo.com/ Lasoo is a geosearch engine that lets you...
NOTE: Lasoo was acquired by Overture in mid-2002. Overture is developing its own version of local search using some of Lasoo's mapping technology. The former Lasoo site at Lasoo.com is not owned by or associated with Overture.
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Lasoo Makes Geosearching Visual -- (full story online, link provided) + Excite Kills Magellan; WebCrawler Remains + Alexa To Pay In Privacy Dispute -- (full story online, link provided) + New Search Engine Resources + SearchDay Articles...
Lasoo Makes Geosearching Visual -- (full story online, link provided) + Excite Kills Magellan; WebCrawler Remains + Alexa To Pay In Privacy Dispute -- (full story online, link provided) + New Search Engine Resources + SearchDay Articles...
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