Alex Ksikes, who I worked with on GoogleModules.com some years back, this month with his team mates launched ChiefMall.com. Alex tells me "The search engine indexes a fairly large corpus of over 420 000 contractors and features geocoding and live indexing ... An interesting aspect of the site is that users can not only search for contractors but also post jobs to all contractors they have searched for. Behind the scene contractors are being matched based on their geographical location and expertise with respect to that job." I asked Alex about more technical details behind the sites and he sent in this (edited to integrate links):
First of all I used the geonam ...
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