Google Suggest Gets Location-Aware, Too

href=”http://api.tweetmeme.com/share?url=http://mashable.com/2010/01/14/google-suggest-local/&service=bit.ly”> width=”51″ height=”61″ src=”http://api.tweetmeme.com/imagebutton.gif?url=http://mashable.com/2010/01/14/google-suggest-local/” align=”right”/>

src=”http://cdn.mashable.com/wp-content/uploads/2010/01/google-mobile-local-260.jpg” alt=”" title=”google-mobile-local-260″ width=”260″ height=”182″ class=”alignright size-full wp-image-184655″ />Just last week href=”http://mashable.com/2010/01/07/near-me-now-googles-mobile-homepage-is-location-aware/”>, Google added location-aware results to mobile searches on both the iPhone and Android platforms. Now that href=”http://googlemobile.blogspot.com/2010/01/optimized-search-suggestions-using-your.html” >geographical awareness comes to Google Suggest, the feature that tries to anticipate your search query based on its relative popularity with other users (which can often href=”http://mashable.com/2009/08/11/funniest-google-suggest-results/”>lead to some humorous results).

Ostensibly to save you time typing in your search query on mobile devices, the search suggestions are now based on your phone’s current or last known location. Ideally this will improve the relevancy of those suggested results by optimizing them based on where you are.

In order to take advantage of the new feature, you’ll have to turn on “Save recent locations” and “Allow use of device location” under the Settings link on the google.com home page. You may also have to refresh the google.com page on your phone’s browser in order to see the location-optimized suggestions.

It’s another step in Google’s march into local territory. Anyone have predictions on what will be next?

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