Servers on the Move

Yes...it always happens, even to the most innocent of us. Our web sites finally grow to the point where the kitchen table is no longer the best platform to operate a regional community resource.

So for the next 24 hours or so, FindItByMe.com will be in transit to new facilities that are hosted by the wonderful folks at Time Warner Cable San Diego.

We now have over 12,570 active listings that cover four communities in North San Diego County: Fallbrook, Bonsall, Vista and Temecula. In the next few weeks we'll be integrating listings we have for the balance of San Diego County and cities into our active database, which will give us around 119,000 active listings.

As I have indicated before, the difference between FindItByMe.com's efforts and everyone else's is that our goal is to make our listings 100% authoritative. Yes that means hand verification of all listings by a real person. Yes it is a lot of work. Yes it is worth it. We don't publish millions of pages of inaccurate data so our indexing and link stats look impressive. Statistics for our site will NEVER look impressive to machine generated analytics.

So with that in mind I am proud to announce that our roving photographer Randy Hetrick has almost completely photographed everything in the greater Fallbrook/Bonsall area. He's clicked off over 1,500 pictures to bring our total photographic coverage to over 6,700 images. While he was clicking pictures he was also recording the exact latitude and longitude of each picture, so we now have recorded the EXACT latitude/longitude of each correlated listing in our system. When we introduce our mapping and routing application in the coming quarter, we will route you exactly to the listing's location, not to the middle of an empty lot. We will introduce some other really INCREDIBLE features at the same time, but you'll have to wait to see because they are so groundbreaking we have to keep them top secret right now.

There are new people working with us on new aspects of our business that are themselves so groundbreaking that again I cannot reveal everything right now. All our lines of business and technology are for one purpose only: to connect the public with the things around them they need.

Stay tuned and you'll be glad you did.


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