Three Steps To Gathering Quality Business Data

The launch of Bizwiki.com early next year will bring a new sense of quality and order to the internet when it comes to information about physical businesses in the United States. Until now internet users have had to make do with general search engine results when looking for on-street businesses in the US, or they have had to trawl their way through general web directories, where frustratingly many of the results returned end up being “virtual” businesses, i.e. just websites. Bizwiki.com, whose UK counterpart launched in 2007 to great acclaim, is set to change all of that by introducing an entirely new method for gathering and publishing business information. There are four main steps involved 1) Owners of businesses, clubs, associations etc. submit the names of real businesses (not websites) to the directory according to physical location. Thus someone looking for a Cantonese restaurant, for instance, will not be wasting their time by finding one in New York when they are hungry in Seattle. Each and every submission is vetted by human staff for acceptance. 2) Any registered user can enter the website and enhance and review any of the listings, which will make the findings so much more valuable to those sourcing this information. In this way feedback is given as to the service and products of any business advertised. 3) The Bizwikibot is programed to spider the websites of the listed business updating any vital information or retrieving and processing a short portion of text about companies 4) Anyone can access this beta search site free of charge. When word gets round, there will be more users, more contributors and the site will become more authoratitive. It’s a self-perpetuating project.

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