SPATIAL CLASSIFIED ADVERTISING DIRECTORY

摘要

A system for providing spatial discovery of advertisements over the Internet includes an uploading component, allowing advertising service providers to upload advertisements on behalf of individual advertisers. A spatial identification component assists advertising service providers in specifying discovery settings for each advertisement including at least one spatial location to be associated with the advertisement, as well as key words and attributes. A search component assists users of the system in searching for goods/services by reference to one or more attributes of the subject matter of the advertisement and to a geographical catchment area. A result display component displays search on a mapping system with location icons identifying the spatial locations associated with relevant advertisements. A search modification component allows a user to modify and refine a search. An advertisement removal component provides for removal of an advertisement and references to it.