16 Jul
Google brings ‘Search With My Location’ to iPhone 3.0 Safari Browser
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Google has activated ‘Search With My Location’ feature in iPhone’s safari browser. If you are on iPhone OS 3.0, go to Google’s homepage in Safari, you will notice a new message below the search box – “New! Try My Location to find restaurants, shops and bars near you!” OR “Favorite Places Near You”. And which you tap on the My Location link, iPhone will pop up an alert asking if its ok for Safari to use Location services. As soon as you accept, you will see a new blue dot below the search box with your location next to it.
As of today, when you visit www.google.com from Safari on your iPhone 3.0, you can choose to turn on My Location by tapping on the link on the homepage. When you tap on the “update” link, your location will be updated and displayed right there on the homepage. Whenever you want to refresh your location, just tap the “update” link. Testing this in New York, my search for “jazz clubs” returned a handful of places within walking distance. I picked one, tapped the phone number, made a reservation, and we were set for the night.
TechCrunch has shared this bit of info as well:
Tags: Location, GoogleThe fact that mobile Safari can access location is a huge feature. It’s what’s going to allow Google Latitude, Google’s location-based social network, to work on the device without a native app, as we described a few months ago. Something else that is potentially interesting about this is that Safari, like some of the other native iPhone apps, can apparently run in the background.
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