Eniro.se is a local Swedish search portal offering
telephone directory
A telephone directory, commonly called a telephone book, telephone address book, phonebook, or the white and yellow pages, is a listing of telephone subscribers in a geographical area or subscribers to services provided by the organization tha ...
, websearch and maps for Sweden. In addition to this Eniro offers a
news aggregator
In computing, a news aggregator, also termed a feed aggregator, feed reader, news reader, RSS reader or simply an aggregator, is client software or a web application that aggregates syndicated web content such as online newspapers, blogs, podc ...
, shopping services,
video search A video search engine is a web-based search engine which Web crawler, crawls the web for video content. Some video search engines parse externally hosted content while others allow content to be uploaded and hosted on their own servers. Some engines ...
,
image search
An image retrieval system is a computer system used for browsing, searching and retrieving images from a large database of digital images. Most traditional and common methods of image retrieval utilize some method of adding metadata such as captio ...
and job search. Its biggest competitor is
Hitta.se who offer similar services.
It was launched in May 2003 when various Swedish web services owned by Eniro, including telephone directory, maps and the search engine
Evreka, where merged into one portal. Eniro bought in 2004 and its web service, "Köp & Sälj", was soon integrated into Eniro.se. A jobfinding service was also added in 2004. A review service connected to the Yellow Pages, where users could give reviews of the listed companies, was added in 2006.
The frontpage was revamped in May 2008 with the launch of ''Supersök'' ("Super Search"). This shows search results for the business directory, residential directory, maps, images, videos and news integrated into one page.
Maps
Initially, Eniro's map service only offered road maps. Satellite images where added in 2006. The resolution of the aerial photographs provided on Eniro.se is higher than the satellite images provided by international map services such as
Google Maps
Google Maps is a web mapping platform and consumer application offered by Google. It offers satellite imagery, aerial photography, street maps, 360° interactive panoramic views of streets ( Street View), real-time traffic conditions, and rou ...
.
In November 2007, Eniro added "Utsikt" to their map service. This function provides photos of cities taken from a 45 degree angle from four directions. The resolution is roughly 0.15 metres per pixel. Initially, only the three major metropolitan areas were available, but more cities were added during 2008. From June 2008, Eniro claims to cover 33 cities with the service.
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External links
Eniro.se
Web mapping
Swedish websites