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Jason Dunn
01-18-2003, 10:00 PM
<div class='os_post_top_link'><a href='http://www.trellixtech.com/smbmetaintro.html' target='_blank'>http://www.trellixtech.com/smbmetaintro.html</a><br /><br /></div>"Dan realized that periodically (perpetually?) people come up with the idea of building a mega-directory of businesses. That would be handy for anyone trying to locate a business, but it's too centralized to succeed on the wildly decentralized Web. Instead, Dan's proposing that businesses fill in a form with relevant data (name, address, goods/services offered, languages spoken, etc.) that then gets saved as XML data in a file at the top level of their site. Anyone who wants to aggregate that data to provide a directory service is free to do so; initially, Dan will set up an aggregation site but — and here's where he's so damn smart — he doesn't want to own this data. If you want to aggregate it, go ahead. <br /><br />Maybe someone already spidering the Web will decide to collect SMBmeta data as well. SMBmeta is nothing more than a set of XML tags. That's its beauty. If enough businesses use them, then it will be a howling success. If not, then, well, nothing's lost, except a whole bunch of Dan's time."<br /><br />The above description is <a href="http://www.hyperorg.com/blogger/mtarchive/001057.html">from this Blog</a>, but the link above goes to the real site. I think this is a really interesting idea, and worth passing along - there's some real merit to this concept, so if you own a small business Web site, take a look.

kfluet
01-18-2003, 10:24 PM
My first thought is that the junk mailers, junk faxers, spammers and telemarketers would be the ones who would benefit most from a list like this.

Do online lists of businesses (Yahoo, etc.) bring customers? Or are customers much more likely to find a business web site through typing what they are looking for and their city into Google?

vincentsiaw
01-18-2003, 11:57 PM
My first thought is that the junk mailers, junk faxers, spammers and telemarketers would be the ones who would benefit most from a list like this.

Do online lists of businesses (Yahoo, etc.) bring customers? Or are customers much more likely to find a business web site through typing what they are looking for and their city into Google?


hmm. you make me realise for the fact of the telemarketer is out there ....