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Google Suggest Gets Location-Aware, Too
Jan 15th
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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Near Me Now: Google’s Mobile Homepage is Location Aware
Jan 8th
The U.S.-only functionality uses GPS on your device to pinpoint your whereabouts and sort nearby results — right on the Google.com mobile homepage — into the following functional categories: Explore right here, restaurants, coffee shops, bars, and ATMs and banks.
In fact, the “Explore right here option” serves up an instant drop-down menu, providing you with results that are literally right in front of you. You’ll immediately get a quick glance at a venue’s Place Page rating and its distance from you. As a result, the simple and smart addition to the mobile
It’s no mystery that Google is trying to
If you’re not clear about how Near Me Now works, you can watch this rather hokey video demonstration:
Near Me Now Screenshots
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CONTEST: Win 2 Tickets, Airfare, and Hotel to the NHL Winter Classic in Boston
Dec 21st
Mashable is proud to be offering one lucky reader and a friend the chance to attend the third annual NHL Bridgestone Winter Classic in Boston, MA, between the Philadelphia Flyers and the Boston Bruins!
The NHL has been one of the most active sports leagues in the social media realm. They’ve been organizing fan tweetups, creating social networks through Twitter Lists, and, of course, holding Twitter contests.
Now the NHL is reaching out through social media channels in order to get two of our readers to Boston, MA, for the NHL Winter Classic Game on January 1, 2010. On top of that, they’re providing round-trip airfare and hotel for the night of December 31.
Here’s how to enter:
1. Post in the comments below, providing a link to either an image or a video that uniquely demonstrates your NHL fandom. This could be a cheer, an outfit or anything you can come up with, but it must focus around you and the NHL or a specific NHL team.
2. Make sure that the title of your picture or video includes the hashtag #MashableNHLContest. Post your media, with the hashtag in the title, on a site such as Flickr, 12Seconds.TV, or YouTube.
3. After the end of the contest on Sunday, December 27th at 11:59 PM PT, we will pick our favorite photo or video and contact that person to get him or her two tickets, plus airfare and hotel accommodations, to the NHL Winter Classic. We’re looking primarily for entertainment value, creativity, and NHL fan spirit.
4. Only one comment per person, please (duplicates will be disqualified). Please use a Disqus account to comment, or sign in as a guest. We’ll need to pull your email address from your comment to notify you if you’ve won, so Twitter and Facebook Connect do not work!
Contest Rules and Restrictions:
You must be 18+ years of age and currently reside in one of the 50 US States. If you would like to participate but are not of valid age/residence, please note “not eligible” in your comment below. By submitting, you are agreeing to the full rules and restrictions. Final entries are due on this post by Sunday, December 27th at 11:59 PM PT.
Reviews: 12seconds.tv, Disqus, Flickr, Twitter, YouTube
Local search on mobile: change is coming!
Jun 24th
change is coming
We don’t have to tell you how important search has become the last decade. Our need for a good search engine didn’t dissapear as internet grew to the information monster it is nowadays. Almost everything that we want to find has become the needle in an haistak. So are our (online) businesses. We are trying to become a bigger needle with searchengine optimalization, internetmarketing and online pr. But it is one hell of a job to get it done and stay at a certain level. Luckily there are proffessionals who can help you out. They tend to know exactly what to do to let you become a bigger needle. But search engines keep on developing what makes it harder for everyone to keep track on al these developments. And as far we know is that more change is coming and you shouldn’t miss out on it: mobile local search. We think that it will play a big part of running a succesfull online/offline business instead of staying a small needle. In fact, it’s not hard to imagine mobile search gonna be even bigger than online search as there are more possibilities and more purposes to search (think augmented reality, QR-codes, price comparison etc.). Read the rest of this entry »
