Identifying interesting locations based on commonalities in location based postings

摘要

A method and system that identifies and presents information, which is common in various postings in an area, such as a neighborhood. If various geographically proximate postings contain the same salient word(s), the information is considered to be reliable and useful and it is presented to a user. The user is capable of viewing the postings in a form displayed over a map of an area. The user may view the posting information in different forms, and also perform searches for information and postings.