An important part of having a plethora of traveling data is being able to find what you are looking for in this data, quickly. If I am looking for a Quizno’s near my Comfort Inn hotel, I want to be able to quickly find one. It goes without saying that this is no easy task.

On the home page, you will see a beta version of the travel attraction search tool that I am building. It is rather basic on the front-end and the back-end, featuring four input boxes. One for a keyword, such as “pizza”, the other for the type of attraction you are searching for, the next is a state drop down, and the fourth is the city in which you are looking. When you click submit, it uses some fancy functions that I wrote back in my “search engine” days. I wrote an algorithm for a search engine, and after indexing seven million web pages, I realized that I was going to need significant investment capital to make a run at it. Either way, I can start to use some of that here!

I have been working tirelessly on compiling points of interest for TravelingNetwork.com.

I currently have over 300,000 restaurants that have been added to the Traveling Network staging database. Once I verify the integrity, the data will be pushed to production.

I expect my electricity bill will be astronomical because I have two servers running 24/7 processing and inserting the data into my staging database. My air conditioner has been running non stop. It doesn’t help that I live near Miami either.