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Google Adds Location Targeted Searching

Posted by ryuzaki0 on from the where-am-i dept.

miradu writes "Many Slashdot users may remember that the winner of last year's Google programming contest's entry was a location specific search. Now, Google has made a version of Daniel's idea available to use on Google Labs. Google Search By Location lets you search for things near some zipcode, or city/state. It then gives you a map with each search result pinned on it. V"

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  1. I'm more worried.. by Creepy+Crawler · · Score: 0, Flamebait

    What google is censoring. Knowing that any DMCA 'request' Google deletes any record from them being.. How do we trust them?

    They've showed that they have no regard for true searchfulness as they cut out Kazaa Lite, Clambake, many parts of scientology debunking. What else do they cut out that we dont know?

    I have at least 8 search engines that I use constantly. And slowly, google is lowering itself in my eyes.

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