Lot’s of gems in Danny’s piece... With the US about to celebrate the Thanksgiving holiday tomorrow, how are the major search engines gearing up to support an onslaught of Thanksgiving queries? Let’s take a look at how you can use them, ranging from flight tracking tools to special "shortcut" or "smart answer" boxes leading to related information.
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Huge opportunities here for those in local markets. For example my office is 10 minutes from LAX and I can help my whole community by organizing lists of relevant data. Got some posts to make!
On a related note, it’s amazing just how much Thanksgiving-related searches are dominating the listings in Google’s Hot Trends report. It’s like the country has shut down and everyone is working on cooking the perfect turkey!
@MariosAlexandrou: I noticed that. In fact I printed the top 100 around 5pm as it was a virtual grocery list (minus a few non-related searches) and mini guide to Thanksgiving.
Danny:If you’re looking for some additional real-time flight tracking tools, including one (FlightExplorer and SkylineGlobe**** (a 3D globe, free and fast download) that allows you to track planes in and out of North American airspace, we have this post on ResourceShelf that lists a couple of other services.What about trains, traffic, etc? We also have a "Real Time Info" category on ResourceShelf. It is global in scope (several UK sites) and includes both web and mobile web resources. + One of the services, FlightStats, just released a tool for Facebook+ Another service offering 3D tracking is fboweb and Google Earth. **** Another super cool feature is the ability to take live traffic camerasand lay them on top of aerial imagery. Data from the free TrafficLand.com aggregation service.