Location-Aware Search Engines

Abstract

Location-aware search engines are pretty crucial today, both as standalone search engines as well as components supporting business logic and operations (think of a food-delivery application). With the advent of location-enabled smart devices, this data is available more than ever, but that also signifies an information explosion in the amount of data that is available at any given point in time for such queries. Hence it is imperative that we build storage, indexing, and searching strategies that scale with the data while consistently delivering a reasonable degree of performance.