Comments on: Google Adds Neighborhood Search To Maps, Automated 3-D Rendering To Earth http://searchengineland.com/google-adds-neighborhood-search-to-maps-automated-3-d-rendering-to-earth-11271 Search Engine Land: Must Read News About Search Marketing & Search Engines Mon, 23 Nov 2009 05:39:12 -0500 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.8.4 hourly 1 By: darrinclement http://searchengineland.com/google-adds-neighborhood-search-to-maps-automated-3-d-rendering-to-earth-11271/comment-page-1#comment-2546 darrinclement Sat, 02 Jun 2007 22:23:36 +0000 http://searchengineland.com/beta/google-adds-neighborhood-search-to-maps-automated-3-d-rendering-to-earth-11271.php#comment-2546 Knowing which businesses are inside malls is historically a difficult problem. Often, malls are even on private roads and so standard geocoding tools miss them because the street can't be found. On the neighborhood thing - which is more valuable: ability to do a local search using a neighborhood name or seeing the actual <a href="http://www.maponics.com/Neighborhood_Maps/Neighborhood_Boundaries/neighborhood_boundaries.html" rel="nofollow">neighborhood boundary</a>? Knowing which businesses are inside malls is historically a difficult problem. Often, malls are even on private roads and so standard geocoding tools miss them because the street can’t be found.

On the neighborhood thing – which is more valuable: ability to do a local search using a neighborhood name or seeing the actual neighborhood boundary?

]]> By: Rocky Agrawal http://searchengineland.com/google-adds-neighborhood-search-to-maps-automated-3-d-rendering-to-earth-11271/comment-page-1#comment-2545 Rocky Agrawal Tue, 22 May 2007 01:20:14 +0000 http://searchengineland.com/beta/google-adds-neighborhood-search-to-maps-automated-3-d-rendering-to-earth-11271.php#comment-2545 Vindigo had neighborhood searching on its Palm app a long, long time ago. Glad to finally have it on Google Maps. The other part of my <a href="http://blog.agrawals.org/2006/07/16/making-people-think-like-computers-bad-idea/" rel="nofollow">colloquial local wishlist</a>: if a business is in a mall, tell me that instead of making me figure it out from a map. Vindigo had neighborhood searching on its Palm app a long, long time ago. Glad to finally have it on Google Maps.

The other part of my colloquial local wishlist: if a business is in a mall, tell me that instead of making me figure it out from a map.

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