Comments on: Neighborhood Search from Google http://blog.eneighbors.com/2007/05/21/neighborhood-search-from-google/ Social networking for neighborhoods Sun, 29 Jan 2012 03:09:01 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.com/ By: Free Traffic,adsense http://blog.eneighbors.com/2007/05/21/neighborhood-search-from-google/#comment-3373 Sat, 19 Nov 2011 08:42:09 +0000 http://eneighbors.wordpress.com/2007/05/21/neighborhood-search-from-google/#comment-3373 Free Traffic,adsense…

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]]> By: Darrin Clement http://blog.eneighbors.com/2007/05/21/neighborhood-search-from-google/#comment-271 Sun, 08 Jul 2007 01:25:36 +0000 http://eneighbors.wordpress.com/2007/05/21/neighborhood-search-from-google/#comment-271 Hi Bob – the homegain data (which is the true original creators of the data) is very old and topologically inaccurate. The first thing we did was correct all those types of mapping errors and we are rolling out 50 or so new cities this summer. And Maponics is committed to a quarterly update cycle. Any “fire sales” on the old data wouldn’t serve customers well.

]]> By: Bob http://blog.eneighbors.com/2007/05/21/neighborhood-search-from-google/#comment-234 Tue, 03 Jul 2007 19:18:59 +0000 http://eneighbors.wordpress.com/2007/05/21/neighborhood-search-from-google/#comment-234 Factle Maps (the original creators of maponics neighborhood data) are selling the data sets until the end of July 2007 for a very cheap price.

]]> By: Darrin Clement http://blog.eneighbors.com/2007/05/21/neighborhood-search-from-google/#comment-85 Fri, 25 May 2007 16:32:41 +0000 http://eneighbors.wordpress.com/2007/05/21/neighborhood-search-from-google/#comment-85 Hey Phil, Maponics is a mapping company that of course creates maps and does map-related projects for clients. But the neighborhood GIS – polygons – data is licensed out to online sites, portals, and media companies.

I agree about adsense – if I were a small business serving customers locally it wouldn’t be useful. If a company could incorporate neighborhood boundaries and other local-relevant information, that could be more attractive to the average small business.

]]> By: Phil http://blog.eneighbors.com/2007/05/21/neighborhood-search-from-google/#comment-67 Tue, 22 May 2007 01:31:35 +0000 http://eneighbors.wordpress.com/2007/05/21/neighborhood-search-from-google/#comment-67 Very interesting. I have not seen Maponics before now. Thanks for sharing, Darrin. If I’m reading this right, it looks like targeted marketing at a hyper-local level.

Is it all offline maps, or do you have an online ad platform for small businesses to get their services in front of specific neighborhoods?

As far as I knew, there was no neighborhood-specific online network… but I’ve been wrong before. eNeighbors is attempting to create a neighborhood-based network by getting communities online as part of their neighborhood communcations. Then in turn, we’ll be able to serve ad content to those targeted areas.

Things like Google’s Adsense are still too general/high-level for small businesses to effectively use their marketing dollars if they just want to market to a small area immediately around their business.

]]> By: Darrin Clement http://blog.eneighbors.com/2007/05/21/neighborhood-search-from-google/#comment-66 Mon, 21 May 2007 23:35:54 +0000 http://eneighbors.wordpress.com/2007/05/21/neighborhood-search-from-google/#comment-66 So, other than Maponics, who has neighborhood boundaries in a GIS format?

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