How far afield will Google Maps go for an answer? More than ever!

At the Google LatLong blog, Google announced that Maps now offered a neighborhood search capability. From the post: You can now do searches such as bagels upper east side new york and restaurants, over the rhine, cincinnati on Google Maps. Additionally, this capability allows you to do city-level searches where the city is uniquely named, …

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Google Mobile XHTML upgrade

I was sitting at my daughter’s soccer match yesterday and slightly bored, I started to play with the browser on my old Nokia 3600 cell phone. I explored MSN (it didn’t work) and the Yahoo interface (not bad) but I was struck by the incredible improvement to the speed and quality of the interface to …

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