[Geowanking] local web search stats

[Sonny Parafina]

I think that the 80% is a geospatial legend (akin to an urban legend).  
I've been hearing that figure since the late '80s, so I suspect that it 
comes from some vendor marketing literature.

I found this series of articles on local search: 
http://searchenginewatch.com/searchday/article.php/3111631
There are a lot of other related articles linked in the series.

sonny

Gregory Yetman wrote:

> Hi,
>
> I've often heard the quote that 80% of all data can be georeferenced. 
> I've never found a source that I can cite for this though. Google 
> turns up:
>
> http://gbifdemo.utu.fi/approach/meeting_needs.htm
>
> and
>
> http://gislab.elfak.ni.ac.yu/leni/Radovi/JEC_GI97D_ps.pdf
>
> among others but no peer-reviewed articles exist that I know of.
>
> More to the point, people have pointed out that while much information 
> can be georeferenced, doing so is not always useful. Any physical 
> object on the planet, and thus any information about a given object, 
> can be georeferenced. What use is it to know the coordinates of a 
> soccer ball during a game? Or the books on a library shelf? Knowing 
> the location of the library may be important, or how to request a 
> book, but the actual book location (or tagging the reference to the 
> book) is probably not of much use. On the other hand, you cannot 
> georeference a piece of information like a legal ruling. Having good 
> boundaries for where the legal ruling is enforceable can be quite 
> useful though!
>
> My 2¢...
>
> Greg
>
> Anselm Hook wrote:
>
>> Anybody have any statistics to nail down how much human information is
>> about location? - or say how much day-to-day conversation involves
>> location? - I imagine it is something like 80%.
>>
>> - a
>>
>> On Wed, 21 Sep 2005, Martin Tomko wrote:
>>
>>  
>>
>>> Dear List,
>>> some time ago I found a statistic about what percentage of search on 
>>> the
>>> Web is local in nature. Extensive googling did not find me the article
>>> again. MEa culpa, I did not bookmark it (or am I lost in my 
>>> bookmarks? :))
>>> Can anyone point me to a reliable articel (even better, a paper?) I
>>> remember it was around 35-40%... Ah well, back to google...
>>> Thanks
>>> Martin
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