Comments on: something I could get that Kofi Annan and Jimmy Carter couldn’t http://blog.adrianbischoff.com/2008/11/22/something-i-could-get-that-kofi-annan-and-jimmy-carter-couldnt/ all the cool kids... Tue, 07 Sep 2010 15:22:04 -0700 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.8.4 hourly 1 By: Colin http://blog.adrianbischoff.com/2008/11/22/something-i-could-get-that-kofi-annan-and-jimmy-carter-couldnt/comment-page-1/#comment-75300 Colin Sun, 23 Nov 2008 13:25:21 +0000 http://blog.adrianbischoff.com/2008/11/22/something-i-could-get-that-kofi-annan-and-jimmy-carter-couldnt/#comment-75300 I like the Google map accompanying that news story. Somehow I doubt that Carter and Annan were trying to enter Zimbabwe from a small town in northern Michigan. At minimum, Google needs to come up with a system that chooses, from the set of all cities in the world with a given name, the city with the largest population. Better yet, they should scan the article and look for other geographical clues that would enable them to make a more accurate guess. I'm surprised they haven't done that already. I like the Google map accompanying that news story. Somehow I doubt that Carter and Annan were trying to enter Zimbabwe from a small town in northern Michigan.

At minimum, Google needs to come up with a system that chooses, from the set of all cities in the world with a given name, the city with the largest population. Better yet, they should scan the article and look for other geographical clues that would enable them to make a more accurate guess. I’m surprised they haven’t done that already.

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