Megi Sharikadze, a research manager at the Leibniz Supercomputing Centre in Munich, Germany, first became aware of the need for more specialised, local search engines during her quest to find the nearest post office. For several years, Google maps was directing her to a post office quite a long way from her home. But as she decided to explore some more, she found the nearest post office branch much closer to home by searching directly on the German post website.“It made me realise that there should be more specialised search engines that show all the details of local infrastructure,” said Sharikadze. She…
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