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How to find websites from a certain country on a certain topic?

         

rhodopsin

8:05 pm on Oct 31, 2004 (gmt 0)

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How to find websites from a certain country on a certain topic? - I am after a geographically aware search engine.

I know that with google and yahoo - you can in many cases narrow down your search, on a particular topic, to a certain language or country. This is an excellent tool.

However, I would like to ask how I would find websitees on a certain topic just from a country that does not have a google or yahoo version. I am very interested in websites, on certain topics, in certain countries in Africa - needless to say these do not have yahoo or google versions.

As an aside - an interesting tool that i have found:

A2B
[a2b.cc...]

You give it the latitude and longitude of a geographical area (anywhere on the globe) - this tool then returns the websites in that area. But - it just returns all websites in that area - it doesn;t return the websites in that area on a particular topic. Which is what I am after.

Would be very grateful for any help.

jimbeetle

8:34 pm on Oct 31, 2004 (gmt 0)

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You can use the advanced search on Google or Yahoo to narrow it down to the top level domain, .tw or .uk, for example.

Not sure what the operator is for Yahoo, for Google it's "site":

widgets site:.tw

rhodopsin

8:45 pm on Oct 31, 2004 (gmt 0)

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The problem with a lot of the smaller nations is that they have sold a lot of their domains - it is a good moneyspinner for poor nations. But a lot of the sites that take a small countries domain ending are not actually based in that country. So I dont think this methodology will get us where we want. I have tried it already - using google to search a particular higher country domain - then using geo tools to find the location of various arbitrarily chosen test websites in the search results. The location often didn;t correlate with the the higher country domain. I am really wracking my brains for another approach. Can't come up with anything thus far.