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diff --git a/old/published/Webmonkey/Monkey_Bites/2007/05.21.07/Mon/gmapsneighborhood.txt b/old/published/Webmonkey/Monkey_Bites/2007/05.21.07/Mon/gmapsneighborhood.txt deleted file mode 100644 index 5bb0a44..0000000 --- a/old/published/Webmonkey/Monkey_Bites/2007/05.21.07/Mon/gmapsneighborhood.txt +++ /dev/null @@ -1,9 +0,0 @@ -<img alt="Mymaps" title="Mymaps" src="http://blog.wired.com/photos/uncategorized/2007/04/05/mymaps.jpg" border="0" style="float: right; margin: 0px 0px 5px 5px;" />Following close on the heals of a recent upgrade to Yahoo Maps, the Google LatLong blog has [announced a new feature][1] that allows users to search by neighborhood. Google has trumped Yahoo's initial launch of an identical feature by offer the service in fifty U.S. cities, while Yahoo's offering remains limited to New York and San Francisco. - -Google's neighborhood search allows users to perform searches like "[record store, greenwich village][2]." Note that informal names don't work quite as well, for instance a search for "record store, the village" will return results in about seven U.S. cities. - -In addition to the neighborhood-based features Google Maps can now do city level searches with just the city name, provided the name is unique, for instance, "[bookstore, Boston][3]." - -[1]: http://google-latlong.blogspot.com/2007/05/posted-by-david-tussey-product-manager.html "Neighborhood Search Capability" -[2]: http://maps.google.com/maps?f=q&hl=en&q=record+store,+greenwich+village&sll=46.739861,-95.537109&sspn=30.188964,83.144531&ie=UTF8&cd=1&filter=0&ll=40.732722,-74.000859&spn=0.016292,0.040598&z=15&iwloc=B&om=1 "Record Stores Greenwich Village" -[3]: http://maps.google.com/maps?f=q&hl=en&q=bookstore,+boston&ie=UTF8&ll=42.365647,-71.05545&spn=0.063544,0.162392&z=13&iwloc=C&om=1 "Bookstore, Boston"
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