Automatic geotagging of Russian web sites

The poster describes a fast, simple, yet accurate method to associate large amounts of web resources stored in a search engine database with geographic locations. The method uses location-by-IP data, domain names, and content-related features: ZIP and area codes. The novelty of the approach lies in building location-by-IP database by using continuous IP blocks method. Another contribution is domain name analysis. The method uses search engine infrastructure and makes it possible to effectively associate large amounts of search engine data with geography on a regular basis. Experiments ran on Yandex search engine index; evaluation has proved the efficacy of the approach. Categories and Subject Descriptors H.3.3 [Information Storage and Retrieval]: Information Search and Retrieval ? information filtering, retrieval models, search process. General Terms Algorithms, Design, Experimentation, Verification. Keywords Geotagging, Geographic Information Retrieval.

• Type: Conference
• Year: 2006
• Where: WWW
• Authors: Alexei Pyalling, Michael Maslov, Pavel Braslavski
• Keywords: Internet Technology, Method Uses Search, Search Engine, Search Engine Database, WWW 2006