Geooreka: Enhancing Web Searches with Geographical Information
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Geographical information is achieving an increasing importance in the World Wide Web. Recently, the web saw a growth in the use of map-based services; however, these services are usually used as visual yellow pages rather than search engines. The action of finding a web page relevant to a specific topic and a specific area is still mostly dependent on classical keyword based methods. In this paper we present Geooreka, a web search engine integrated with a GIS database, which allows to search web documents that refers to an area visually configured by a user by means of a map. Our preliminary results, show that our search engine could actually improve the quality of geographically related web searches.
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