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MetaCarta GeoSearch News indexes an extensive collection of more than 4,200 national, international and local news sources every hour. This includes direct news feeds from the Associated Press and Reuters.
For publishers, GeoSearch News presents an opportunity to supplement existing content with additional hyperlocal content. GeoSearch News integrates with any map and sits side-by-side with existing search engines to help leverage that investment.
- Create a local news portal for a readers.
- Offer more targeted content to encourage repeat visits, increase page views, and drive premium content subscriptions.
- Increase revenue streams by targeting new local advertising opportunities that go hand-in-hand with local content.
For editors, GeoSearch News presents an easy way to geotag stories automatically. It can be configured to process stories immediately when ready to be published. Once indexed, each story can be found by readers througha geographic search capability.
- Save time by eliminating manual human tagging or metadata creation.
- Find background information faster for important stories - focus research where something happened.
- More accurate than entity extraction technologies - by "disambiguating" a place (e.g. 'Paris'), editors spend less time checking accuracty of geotags, and more time writing.
For consumers, GeoSearch News provides users a single site where they can learn what is happening now at any destination in the world. GeoSearch News is an ideal resource for consumers who may be investigating a real estate purchase, planning to travel or news junkies that are looking for a broader perspective on local and worldwide coverage.
- Real estate buyers discover what is happening in their targeted neighborhoods by searching for crime reports, editorial opinion, community news, and local events.
- Travelers can learn about current happenings at their destination that can enhance their trip, such as new museum exhibit openings or learn of events that may interrupt their travel plans, such as transportation strikes, environmental issues, or political unrest.
- News hounds can gain a broader perspective and opinion on news without having to visit multiple sites.
For public sector or state & local analysis, GeoSearch News represents a powerful analysis tool that can be used to visualize trends, increase situational awareness, and see hotspots of activity across publicly available Web content. When combined with other analysis products (e.g. Starlight), analysts can quickly decide where to focus attention.
MetaCarta's technical capability known as "Aggregated Search" enables users to find content indexed on multiple on-premise or hosted Appliances, including MetaCarta Appliances which host the GeoSearch News collections described above.
