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January 30, 2008
Posted by Lior Ron, Product Manager
There's a lot to discover in Google Maps: addresses, businesses, points of interest,
user maps
, and even
photos, books, and videos
. To help sift through all of this, we've added a new search option that will help you find exactly what you want. Check out the new "show search options" link near the search box. Following this link will add a drop-down menu with three options for refining your search:
Locations - Search only addresses, places of interest or other location names. For example, searching for "storm" will bring you to
the city of Storm, Finland.
Businesses - Search only businesses. Searching for "storm" over San Francisco will show you
businesses with storm in their name.
User-created content - Search maps created by users in Google or anywhere on the web. Searching for "storm" over San Francisco will show some
interesting photos
from the stormy week we had in San Francisco last month.
This last option is particularly useful for exploring the world from the vantage point of true local experts. Here are some cool searches I was able to do: "
Windsurfing in San Francisco
" shows windsurfing spots around the Bay Area from
YouTube
,
virtualglobetrotting
and
Flickr
(while business search will show
windsurfing business listings
); "
Romantic places in Paris
" includes results for romantic places mentioned in mashups by
francoissachs.nl
,
communitywalk
and
Platial
; "
Seinfeld New York
" highlights locations featured on the show from
Panoramio
, Flickr and other highlights from Google My Maps.
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