Comments on: NYT On Search

By: Anonymous

Anonymous — Sun, 13 Mar 2005 10:33:01 +0000

>the “building by building” picture in main cities has existed in France on http://www.pagesjaunes.fr (Yellow pages) for many years

That’s true. And they have many advanced features such as natural language search. You type “I am hungry” (j’ai faim) and you get the list of restaurants.

But the French Telecom are not too good at… communication!

By: Nick

Nick — Sat, 12 Mar 2005 13:39:10 +0000

Hi! Just to flag that the “building by building” picture in main cities has existed in France on http://www.pagesjaunes.fr (Yellow pages) for many years. Its now extended to Spain also.

By: juliuss

juliuss — Fri, 11 Mar 2005 18:59:10 +0000

I’m here right now because of the NYTimes article. I was wondering about that billions quote too, I’m glad you cleared it up.

By: Kendall Willets

Kendall Willets — Thu, 10 Mar 2005 17:08:07 +0000

Wasn’t there some web service in the 90′s that had pictures of every business address? I can’t remember (or find) the name, but it came to mind when I saw this feature.