[TillE]

> I'm surprised there's still not a Google for events.

Absolutely. What's going on in Berlin next weekend? To answer that question depending on my interests, I need to check half a dozen different sites, none of them very good or filterable in useful ways.

I want to do more fun and interesting stuff, you want to promote your event. It seems like an obvious opportunity for anyone who can at least improve upon the clunky Web 1.0 interface of existing sites.

[boomzilla]

I've been mulling over this idea for a while now and actually have implemented a prototype. The current roadblock I run into, as someone said earlier in the thread, is the data sources. I've implemented a crawler that pulls from roughly 10 different sites, but clearly the custom crawling doesn't scale: there are just too many websites out there, and I don't have access to the crawling infrastructure of the Google/Bing size (both machine power and development effort).

I am thinking of making my prototype more human involved. For example, users (like you) could list the sites they often check for events, and maybe give the system some cue on how to extract the events from those sites. Another approach is MTurk which is something I'll try next.

[visakanv]

Yeah, this definitely seems like the inevitable future. Google, what bands will be in Y (town) during X period? It almost feels primitive and painfully slow that we do what we do now.