Searching the world wide web for local services and facilities: a review on the patterns of location-based queries

Authors:
Saeid Asadi;Chung-Yi Chang;Xiaofang Zhou;Joachim Diederich
Affiliations:
School of ITEE, The University of Queensland, Brisbane, QLD, Australia;School of ITEE, The University of Queensland, Brisbane, QLD, Australia;School of ITEE, The University of Queensland, Brisbane, QLD, Australia;School of ITEE, The University of Queensland, Brisbane, QLD, Australia
Venue:
WAIM'05 Proceedings of the 6th international conference on Advances in Web-Age Information Management
Year:
2005

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Abstract

Many queries sent to search engines refer to specific locations in the world. Location-based queries try to find local services and facilities around the user’s environment or in a particular area. This paper reviews the specifications of geospatial queries and discusses the similarities and differences between location-based queries and other queries. We introduce nine patterns for location-based queries containing either a service name alone or a service name accompanied by a location name. Our survey indicates that at least 22% of the Web queries have a geospatial dimension and most of these can be considered as location-based queries. We propose that location-based queries should be treated different from general queries to produce more relevant results.