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14: Other Cool Apps > FINDING LOCAL BUSINESSES
FINDING LOCAL BUSINESSES
The rise of e-commerce over the last two decades has had an undeniably negative impact on smaller local businesses. What used to require a trip to the local independent bookstore or music shop can now be done in the comfort of your own home. Just as important, the web was not much help for local businesses because finding information on the web required that users be at home in front of their computers.
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Charles Messier was a seventeenth-century French astronomer who created a catalog of galaxies, nebulae, and star clusters. Today, these objects are known, appropriately, as Messier objects. The objects are known by a numeric designation Messier gave them; for example, the Andromeda galaxy is M31. There are a total of 110 Messier objects. Nineteenth- and twentieth-century astronomers compiled a much longer list, known as the New General Catalogue or NGC, that includes all of the Messier objects, along with about 7700 additional ones, but most professional and amateur astronomers, not to mention Sky Maps, still use the Messier designations for those in his catalog. One of the things that makes the Messier objects compelling is that Messier h....