Local.com is a leading local search engine and the largest local search network in the United States. Powered by the company’s patent-pending Keyword DNA™ and local web indexing technologies, Local.com provides users with targeted, relevant local search results. The company provides over 17 million consumers each month with the most relevant search results for local businesses, products and services on Local.com and over 700 regional media sites. Businesses can target ready-to-purchase consumers using a variety of advertising products including subscription, pay per click, banner and pay per call ad products. Local.com consistently ranks in the Top 100 in U.S. website traffic according to Internet research firm, comScore.

During the 17th annual Conference on Information and Knowledge Management event, Local.com will be presenting a paper titled, “Experiences in Crawling Deep Web in the Context of Local Search,” that explores the process of crawling and extracting structured data from a wide variety of ‘Deep Web’ resources that serve local content. The paper will discuss the challenges in crawling ‘Deep Web’ resources for local search and effective techniques to address them.

For those of you interested in the vast realms of information systems and data retrieval, the conference is being held at the Napa Valley Marriott, October 26-30, 2008. The purpose of the conference is to identify challenges facing the development of future knowledge and information systems, and to shape future research directions through the publication of high quality, applied and theoretical research findings. Be sure to check out the Geographic Information Retrieval Workshop to catch Local.com’s presentation.

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