Hatrack River Forum: Yet another new Google initiative

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Posted by Hobbes (Member # 433) on :

Google Local.

Hobbes [Smile]

Posted by Jay (Member # 5786) on :

Has some bugs to work out. Put in Pizza for my hometown and it gave me some of the local places. But then went to far aways places and got the distances wrong on a lot of those

Posted by Hobbes (Member # 433) on :

It helped me find an Indian supply store within biking distance. [Big Grin]

Hobbes

[ February 15, 2005, 01:28 PM: Message edited by: Hobbes ]

Posted by Belle (Member # 2314) on :

I put in Dentist and my hometown and it was perfect - mentioned all the dentists in the surrounding area too.

Very cool!

Posted by Jonathan Howard (Member # 6934) on :

Google is what bureaucracy should have always been.

(I saw Brazil; I saw 1984 [and I must read it soon].)

JH

Posted by Da_Goat (Member # 5529) on :

It's a little outdated. One of the Pizza Huts they list is now an Alfonso's Mexican Food.

Not bad, though.

Posted by Hobbes (Member # 433) on :

Some other new things.

Hobbes [Smile]

Posted by dkw (Member # 3264) on :

I put in "gas" and my town. It got all the gas stations in the surrounding towns, with correct milage. It missed, however, the only gas station actually in this town.

Posted by James Tiberius Kirk (Member # 2832) on :

Google rocks.

That is all.

--j_k