AlexH

In light of Bill Gates’ complaints that “Oh, sure, everybody is working on those things, but just take the idea of finding your local pizza place and doing that right; search doesn’t do that well today.“, there has been a lot of discussion on Boingboing, slashdot, and other forums about searching.

rbolkey provided a link to Google Local for pizza joints in Redmond, WA. Kind of funny, but I thought to myself, that’s not going to be right, MSFT HQ isn’t at the centre of Redmond. It was something that always bothered me, since I live in Kerrisdale (which my grandpa calls South Vancouver:) ), but my Google Local searches always gave me locations in the more northern areas like Kits or downtown.

Well, I noticed that I can now do a Google Local search with my postal code. I really hope that this can be used with their cell phone search technology, because if I ever get a cell phone, I’d use that all of the time.

Combine that with Keyhole, the satellite picture service, and a site like MapQuest for directions, and that would be a killer app that I’d use almost every day.