Goby (pron: "GO-be") is a new search engine that will help you find something to do. Whether you're at home or on vacation, the site directs you to museums, hiking trails, restaurants, local events, kids' activities...
How does it work? Goby asks you what you want to do, and where and when you want to do it. The site trolls through hundreds of databases and Web sites preselected by the Goby team and then offers up results that are organized in a meaningful way. In other words, the results are better than what you'd find on Google. Instead of just giving you a list of Web pages, Goby converts all those pages into human-friendly information, so you can see things like locations, phone numbers, photographs from around the Web, links to nearby points of interest—basically any information that might help you plan your adventure.
"Goby, unlike Google, understands the concept of a general area; if you search for hiking trails in San Francisco, it'll alert you to ones in Marin, too," writes Harry McCracken for PCWorld. "Unlike Google, it can figure out the dates in results-if you're going to New York over a specific long weekend, you can search for gallery shows taking place then. And Goby does a good job of winnowing out Web pages that don't relate to activities and events-in my tests, it never returned results out of left field."
I took the site on a test drive for an upcoming trip to Charleston, S.C. We'll be traveling with the kids and looking for things to keep the little ones busy. A search turned up 117 results including the South Carolina Aquarium, a couple bowling alleys, and dozens of public parks. The cool thing is that there are photographs for each of the playgrounds so you can check out the play structures. A more refined search for children's museums offered up a listing for the city's one and only children's museum. A search for family events happening over Thanksgiving turned up no results, and a search for family friendly restaurants was also unfruitful and provided only two options, a Chinese restaurant and a sandwich-ice cream shop.
From the reviews that came out last week after the site launched, it sounds as if the Goby team is continuing to refine its search and add to the list of Web sites it mines for information. Before we leave for our trip, I'll definitely check out Goby again.
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