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Bill · 3 years ago

As frustrating as local search is, trying to find local search results in a normal web search can be even more frustrating. The Microsoft patent application illustrates some of the difficulties of trying to understand a location intention in a user's query, but I'm not sure that the method described within the patent application is in place - a search through the live.com SERPS leaves me no reason to believe so.

There is a lot of potential for local search. But I think that there's a lot of work on it that needs to be done before it will begin to reach its potential.
Barry Welford · 3 years ago

I guess the search engines are hiding their local search capabilities for the present, since they're not too proud of them. Live/MSN for example forces you to go do a Map search. As you say, Bill, there's lots of potential demand here that is unfulfilled IMHO.