Google Local: searches for anything at your zip-code

[RideFree]

your local GoogleGizmo
Pretty cool - better than the yellow pages

Woops, forgot to say "Free within reason" (provided you don't mind Google snooping) :disgust:

 

[Nick5324]

hmmm, i tried a few different searchs, and everytime the first result was way off, but otherwise the list was pretty good.

 

[mscdex0]

Not bad

 

[osiris3mc]

Pretty cool, I've been using yp.yahoo.com for ages. I'll give this a try.

 

[Demon-Xanth]

Heh. I searched for "porn" in my area. The neighboring county's tax collector was hit number 4.

 

[Tangman]

Did the same thing -- and the state senator came up as #5.

 

[cthulhu]

Nice. I searched for pizza and the first listing was a hole-in-the-wall place that I use that makes great pizza. I searched for porn and the first lising was a label company, sixth listing was a grocery store, and seventh listing was a gay and lesbian community center - go figure. Out of the first ten listings, it looked like there was only two that looked legit.

 

[parsley007]

cool, thanks :beer:

 

[GprophetB]

wow searched for porn in my area, michigan state university library popped as number 1.



very cool, im sure ill use this in the future

thanks op

 

[Tarheelsuperman]

Nice. I did a search for Brazilian Beef in Raleigh NC and it found exactly what I was looking for, and I have tried multiple times to find the name of this place with no such luck on triangle.citysearch.com. Should be a useful site.

 

[imthebadguy]

google is getting outta control

 

[Hiker04]

Thanks for the laugh. For fun, the top find for a porn search in eastern Iowa turned up Mt. Mercy College, a Catholic school.

Serious searches proved useful, however.

 

[mscdex0]

What's scary is doing a search for "sex" in my city resulted in: the 2nd listing being a Family Center, and the 5th listing was an Animal Shelter.

:Q

 

[BaNzaiDags]

wow i entered "sex" in my area

and i got a response
"International Chaplain's Ministries":evil:

 

[mundane]

I've used a similar service they offer for mobile phones - send a text message to GOOGL with your zip and what you want ( 'pizza' ) and it sends you back 3-5 hits within range.

 

[RideFree]

I'm actually bummed out by this...
Why didn't I think of searching Web pages and crossreferencing the results with the Yellow Pages?

 

[MrBlahh]

Searching for porn in my area gives me McDonalds at #1

 

[digdugdogg]

This is better than Yahoo's local. Whenever I do a search on Yahoo, it brings up listings of places from all over a 25 mile radius. Yahoo local is very hard to sort through.

 

[MeSh1]

Try this trick. some of you might know it already, but i recently tried it to see what happens.... anyhow input as a search string a phone number in quotes and if its listed and not private it'll give you the name and address tied to that name. ex "323-555-1212". Give it a show... its pretty cool and a good way to find out if your listed. Im not

 

[c627627]

Originally posted by: Demon-Xanth
Heh. I searched for "porn" in my area. The neighboring county's tax collector was hit number 4.

Originally posted by: Tangman
Did the same thing -- and the state senator came up as #5.

Rolling OTF, I got
Kansas University of: Box Office

 

[Slikkster]

This feature in Google has been around for ages. If you want to see more of the Google stuff, mostly in endless beta, go here:

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[imported_Bruin711]

I searched for porn in my area but I live in the san fernando valley so it came up with actual porn studios locations.

 

[rky60]

My porn search turned up Yuengling beer as the first result, I guess it could lead to porn type activities

 

[imported_Condor]

Works pretty good. Some things here aren't listed, but more pizza than I thought.

 

[amheck]

Here's my 4th hit with "porn".

Republican Party of Pinellas County

Maybe Clinton would be happy to see that. :Q