04-12-2005, 07:00 PM
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Google Local Search For Mobile Devices
http://mobile.google.com/local
Google now has a local search engine for mobile phones. Of course, it works great on Pocket PCs too. Simply enter the place you are looking for and the city and state. It seems to work with Canadian cities as well. A quick try of London though resulted in an invalid address.
You can see that it allows you to zoom in and out, move around and get driving directions. It seems the zoom here got a little too close to what was going on inside a particular Starbucks. 8O
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04-12-2005, 07:44 PM
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Executive Editor, Android Thoughts
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Next thing you know, you'll be able to search your house for where you placed your car keys. Something like http://lastplaceyoulook.google.com. Too bad it'll take a team of index specialists a day or so to completely catalog your house and it'll take up a nice big corner of your house for storage of the generated index.
But the benefit will be well worth trouble.
Really, Google is going crazy on this searching stuff..
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04-12-2005, 08:54 PM
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Pupil
Join Date: May 2007
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Is that Lockerbucks or Stargnome?
Tim
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04-12-2005, 08:56 PM
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Editor Emeritus
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Hey, is that Chris Pirillo? :rofl:
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04-12-2005, 09:25 PM
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Oracle
Join Date: Mar 2005
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I just tested in my mpx220 and it's great. A really must have for any one with a SmartPhone. Mike! where are you Mike! this news should be posted at your site! :twisted:
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04-12-2005, 09:36 PM
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Magi
Join Date: Sep 2005
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Re: Google Local Search For Mobile Devices
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Originally Posted by Ed Hansberry
It seems to work with Canadian cities as well. A quick try of London though resulted in an invalid address.
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I assume that was London England that came up invalid. I just tried a VERY Canadian search for London Ontario.....Tim Horton's and got four pages of results. 
Dave
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04-12-2005, 09:38 PM
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Oracle
Join Date: Mar 2005
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I used my zip code in florida, and it works find using that instead of the city name.
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04-12-2005, 11:32 PM
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Intellectual
Join Date: Apr 2004
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Now if they will only add support for the satellite maps to the mobile version!
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04-13-2005, 12:30 AM
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Philosopher
Join Date: Dec 2007
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Got me hooked. Guess I can remove the mapblast channel from Avantgo. Just today able to connect my PDA to my Motorola V710, surf the web and download e-mails and it worked flawlessly. Not Wifi speeds, but, good enough. Now if Verizon could un-cripple the Bluetooth on the phone life would be perfect.
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04-13-2005, 04:25 AM
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Philosopher
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Re: Google Local Search For Mobile Devices
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Originally Posted by Paragon
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Originally Posted by Ed Hansberry
It seems to work with Canadian cities as well. A quick try of London though resulted in an invalid address.
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I assume that was London England that came up invalid. I just tried a VERY Canadian search for London Ontario.....Tim Horton's and got four pages of results.
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ONLY 8O 4 pages of Tim Horton results for London, Ontario. Now that's just not right. Maybe Krispy Kreme is really making a dent in the Tim Horton's empire.
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