localbrit.co.uk — With some data in hand could you make a local search engine in 24 hours? Well, that is exactly what someone has done with Local Brit. With everything needing to be done in a day, you would expect corners to be cut, but everything, from the design to the search, just works.
Jul 24, 2006 View in Crawl 4
teaboyJul 24, 2006
I searched for 'pub', not 'pubs', but nevertheless it still only returns one result, whereas Google returns plenty: <a class="user" href="http://maps.google.co.uk/maps?f=q&hl=en&q=pub+in+n4&ie=UTF8&om=1">http://maps.google.co.uk/maps?f=q&hl=en&q=pub+in+n4&ie=UTF8&om=1</a>I do quite like the design though, although it clearly needs optimising!
ahmedfJul 25, 2006
Where is the mod_rewrite broken?
johndgeekJul 25, 2006
It's a great example of how to use the API. I think the design is just fine but I would increase the size of the entry fields for a larger font. Other then that I think it's a great effort. I am using Opera and it seems to be working OK for me.
j4s0nJul 25, 2006
actually, Google API or whatever, SQL or whatever, what's interesting is the story behind how it was done in 24 hours, <a class="user" href="http://www.localbrit.co.uk/story.html">http://www.localbrit.co.uk/story.html</a> I saw that it isnt that easy. I also just like how a programmer's task are written in that detail up to minutes. (Including Pizza breaks), Is there a programmer reality show? or a Big Brother for Programmers?
alexapetreiJul 25, 2006
yeah great, some lazy bastard did something that resembles a search engine in 24 hours and dosent realy work very well . I aint being rude, but that's a piece of crap. Blam me if you must, but them there adwords ... and :One (read: sexy) man.24 hours.A UK local search engine.Possible? - No sir it is not possible.Good day.
suttreeJul 25, 2006
You should look into geonames.org for placename, postcode and geocoding, it might be a bit more suitable for what you want to do. It might not, but it's worth looking at, all the same :)
hertingJul 25, 2006
For the most part I am impressed but there are some issues I see. Searching by town name seems difficult. Looking for places in "Palmer's Green" doesn't return any results, so I tried again searching for "N13" some results are from Palmer's Green but others are places in N1 where the suffix of the post code begins with 3 (e.g. N1 3UH)
ahmedfJul 25, 2006
Was recompiling PHP, should be okay now.Here we go: <a class="user" href="http://www.localbrit.co.uk/search/skateboard/in/manchester">http://www.localbrit.co.uk/search/skateboard/in/manchester</a>