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Google Adds Location Targeted Searching
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"
How come when I search for the location of "Hot single geek chicks" there are no results found?
Donuts
It's a great idea but the heuristics need work:
"Your search for money grubbing scumbags near Lindon, UT did not match any documents within 15 miles."
Trolling is a art,
Server Error
The server encountered a temporary error and could not complete your request.
Please try again in a minute or so.
Does anyone have a link to the google cache of this page?
er.... nevermind...
Why is it so hot? Where am I going? What am I doing in this handbasket?
I was searching for a non-slashdotted version near me when it borked.
The opposite of progress is congress
You should have typed "Washington, DC" for your location.
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or, using google-patriot act search, type in a person's name, and you get all the secret cameras in their home, their entire geneology, pictures from their past, and other weird things that only the conspiracy theorists know...
Or, even better, using google for moms, a google that scans the computer for cookies to find out what site her kid has been visiting via a cookie scan or something.
I dunno, but eventually it's going to seem like an invasion of privacy with these search engines, but then again, once you put something online without any protection, it *is* public domain.
goats near Christmas Island is too disturbing for me.
On the other side of things, Google stands to make a killing here. Google can sell a new class of ads to people like plumbers, who don't need a webpage.
:-)
Wait, I have a better idea: why not put together a collection of local info (maybe print it also) and call that, say, Yellow Pages?
In other words, I call "prior art".
if you use a good enough junk-filter, slashdot.org will display a single, *blank*, page
Not to be confused with www.upmyass.com
it doesn't know where saddam is either...
ph
I searched for unlaid, unwashed geeks sitting in darkened rooms in the middle of the day bathed only in the light from an LCD while posting to Slashdot anonymously and it fired up the quickcam sitting on top of my monitor and automatically made a picture of me the desktop background image.
After a lot of trying, you've finally slashdotted Google! lol
I keep getting server errors when I try searching for things like donuts or my own webpage. Either that, or it thinks Irving,TX is a black hole. Hmm, don't answer that.
RB
You should probably change the location to something other than "my parent's basement".
My beliefs do not require that you agree with them.
Wait...there's something outside the US? ;)
Regards, Martin
Don't feel bad. I live in Northern Virginia, where about two-thirds of all roads are named "Glebe". There's North, South, East, and West Glebe Road. North Glebe runs roughly north, while South Glebe runs east-west. West Glebe goes south, and is south of South Glebe. All of them have different route numbers, and the route numbers change.
All's true that is mistrusted