Posts Tagged ‘hyperlocalisation’

Google: best in the world, cant hold a camera steady.

Now I don’t want to seem all negative, but when you become a huge world power in technology you open yourself up for the small criticisms on blogs like this. Google, are you might say pretty big - a fair bit bigger than a chicken or a tractor or a state of america. You would think with all that power, money and smarts that they could get someone to hold a camera steady!

Google webmasters latest post features what is the almost a “how not to film a presentation” guide, in fact thats what I would rename it. “how not to film a presentation, featuring a hot chick talking ip delivery”.

What I don’t get is how they are gonna draw the line between localisation and different content, if we are allowed to provide different content specific to geo localised areas then as the internet expands and ips become more linked with locations (a possibility I think) google is going to have to have either a lot of bots across the world or expect tailored pages that when hashed do not match! “A program such as md5sum or diff can compute a hash to verify that two different files are identical.” - but you have said we can geolocalise a bit so they are gonna be different - and surely if we are trying to improve the website for each user is the bot not a user - cloaking is just giving it what it wants (lol) I don’t cloak by the way I’m just a bystander.

It’d be ideal if we could some how embed our zipcode/postalcode into our browsers - giving webmasters real ability to geolocalize - I have built a few sites that use postcode entry on logon but its an imperfect system for countless reasons.

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Filed under Big G : Comments (2) : Jun 3rd, 2008