Sign Up to our social questions and Answers Engine to ask questions, answer people’s questions, and connect with other people.
Login to our social questions & Answers Engine to ask questions answer people’s questions & connect with other people.
Lost your password? Please enter your email address. You will receive a link and will create a new password via email.
Please briefly explain why you feel this question should be reported.
Please briefly explain why you feel this answer should be reported.
Please briefly explain why you feel this user should be reported.
For instance, you search for ‘company x, Austin TX’ and Google returns a map at the top of the page with a marker on it, the location of company x, and company x’s website. How is that information collected? Does someone at the business address have to somehow manually associate the physical address with a web address?
The data is collected first by telephone companies who make available the name, address, city, state, zip, and phone number (think phone books). Beyond that, any extra data like websites, images, descriptions are collected by various services and shared.