Sunday, July 29, 2012

Directories clogging up Google search results for Australians

Often I find the results provided by Google search are next to useless. If you search all pages you end up getting many directories and large sites from overseas. The actual sites of the business I’m looking for is unlikely to appear. If you reduce the search to pages from Australia it is better, but then the results of overwhelmed by directories of review sites. I find others feel the same way.

To make it easier for Australians for find local businesses I’ve decided to add a Search feature to JustLocal. JustLocal doesn’t require people to search. The aim is for people to have single-click access to businesses in an area. However, I appreciate it will take some time until the goal of JustLocal is realised. In the meantime, people will still search to find sites on the internet, but the Search feature on JustLocal now makes it easier for Australians to find local businesses.

First the Search is limited to only find results from pages on sites which use Australian domains. That removes large overseas companies dominating the results. Next I’ve identified and filtered out dozens of directories and review sites.

Now if I search for “Doncaster East Pizza” I get a good list of the sites in the area and that is the result I want.

Give the Search feature of JustLocal a go and let me know what you think. If you find a directory or review site in the search results I’ve missed, let me know and I’ll add the site to the exclude list.

Kelvin Eldridge
http://www.justlocal.com.au/
Helping the local community prosper by strengthening local business.

Wednesday, July 18, 2012

PHOEBE Couyant and Joel Drew

PHOEBE Couyant and Joel Drew knew making their Eltham home environmentally friendly would pay off in the long term.... Read More

- Kelvin Eldridge
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Monday, July 16, 2012

Madeline Nelson, Rachel Faulkner and Andrea Magill will be touring Queensland with the Australian Girls Choir

THREE talented Diamond Valley singers will tour Queensland this month with the Australian Girls Choir.... Read More

- Kelvin Eldridge
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Police were called to a domestic dispute in Railway Parade about 11pm on Wednesday

Banyule detective Leading Sen-Constable Dean Kamolins said police were called to a domestic dispute in Railway Parade about 11pm on Wednesday.... Read More

- Kelvin Eldridge
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Wednesday, July 11, 2012

Eltham's Georgia Bonora

SHE might be a seasoned competitor at Olympic Games, Commonwealth Games and world championships, but don't think for a minute Eltham's Georgia Bonora is taking her second Olympic tilt for granted... Read More

- Kelvin Eldridge
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Tuesday, July 10, 2012

Eltham North Combined Playgroups president Sophie Walsh

Eltham North Combined Playgroups president Sophie Walsh said her Glen Park Rd group could fix its playground with such a large amount of cash.... Read More

- Kelvin Eldridge
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POLICE are searching for thieves who stole an expensive kayak from an Eltham front yard

Eltham Constable Jessie Foley said the kayak, a cream-coloured Hobie mirage series outback, was taken from an Orchard Avenue address overnight on June 28.... Read More

- Kelvin Eldridge
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Eltham College of Education in Research

Eltham College of Education in Research will get $47,350 for training.... Read More

- Kelvin Eldridge
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Wednesday, July 4, 2012

Eltham's University of the Third Age

Eltham's University of the Third Age steering committee member Lou Empson said the organisation, which launches tomorrow, could only fit up to about 40 people across its two venues.... Read More

- Kelvin Eldridge
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Oliver Hibbert and his little brother Joshua

WHEN Oliver Hibbert and his little brother Joshua saw hungry and homeless children in the Philippines during a family holiday they knew they had to do something to help.... Read More

- Kelvin Eldridge
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Friends of Eltham Copper Butterfly group

ELTHAM'S endangered copper butterfly has been given a huge boost with a $459,000 grant to help save it from extinction... Read More

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Eltham Bookshop's Meera Govil

Eltham Bookshop’s Meera Govil is the Australian Booksellers Association-Text Publishing bookseller of the year.... Read More

- Kelvin Eldridge
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CFA volunteer firefighter Andrew Rankine

In August the Eltham firefighter will travel to Cambodia to offer a masterclass of sorts to the country’s burgeoning firefighters.... Read More

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Tim Ratje and Chris Moffat are off to the world cup

In less than a week, two youngsters from Eltham will be heading to America for warm-up matches and then on to Finland for the cup.... Read More

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Nillumbik Council proposes an average 5.9 per cent rate rise

The 2012-13 draft budget, which proposes an average 5.9 per cent rate rise and charge increase, heads a list of 15 items listed for discussion.... Read More

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Melbourne screenwriter Michael Lucas

Growing up in Eltham, Lucas lived within spitting distance of Montsalvat’s artistic community, and enrolled in art classes before working there as a teenager. ... Read More

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