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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. Re:Maybe not such a good thing? by docwardo · · Score: 5, Insightful

    Question here:

    But all this info IP address, variable values, and sites on which the user clicked....

    isn't that all just from most standard web server log?

    Technically doesn't /. record every page I click on, my orginating IP address and any searches I perform?