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News Posted: Tue, Apr 7 2009 2:37 PM
Google knows where you live (approximately) and it's not afraid to use that knowledge in your search results.

The search engine/e-mail/aggregator giant announced on its blog that it's finished its "worldwide rollout of local search results on a map." Even if you don't type in a location with your search — i.e., "restaurants in Dallas" — Google will check out your IP address and guess where you live and customize your search results thusly.

For example, a search using just the word "bookstore" using the West Nyack, N.Y., ZIP code, gives you search results that start with this map:


You can also change the location and get results for wherever you're traveling to, or narrow the search results further.

Users can search for specific locations — addresses, stores — by putting in the exact name or address, such as:

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digitaldd replied on Thu, Apr 9 2009 10:36 AM

1984 is alive and well and Google is Big brother..Wilted Flower

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LovinIt replied on Fri, Apr 10 2009 8:05 PM

Wowzers,

 

Next thing will be a Goolge Live Map service that will show detialed sat link video of an area, that would be insane.

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