Web site to ask questions like "Search for xxxxxxxx in or near yyyyyyyy"
 

When planning a trip I am constantly looking for answers to questions
in the format spelled out in the Subject. Examples:

Search for chinese restaurant in or near Dillon, SC
Search for Hampton Inn in or near Rocky Mount, NC
Search for Pancake House restaurant in or near Embassy Suites,
Deerfield Beach, FL

Does anyone knoow of a web site that coujld answer questions like these?

Web site to ask questions like "Search for xxxxxxxx in or near yyyyyyyy"
 

"Gary" wrote in message
eb.com...
When planning a trip I am constantly looking for answers to questions in
the format spelled out in the Subject. Examples:

Search for chinese restaurant in or near Dillon, SC
Search for Hampton Inn in or near Rocky Mount, NC
Search for Pancake House restaurant in or near Embassy Suites, Deerfield
Beach, FL

Does anyone knoow of a web site that coujld answer questions like these?


No, but I can do it in easy steps using Google.

1) Search Dillon NC
2) Click on Map
3) Clear the search box above the map which will say Dillon SC
4) now search (in the box you just cleared) Chinese Restaurant

Result - 3 in Dillon SC.

It's not foolproof; there's an IHOP in Deerfield Beach but if you search
Pancake House on a map of Deerfield Beach IHOP doesn't show. Oh, wait,
maybe that's not such a surprise!

Web site to ask questions like "Search for xxxxxxxx in or near yyyyyyyy"
 

Thanks, Graham. May I assume that this will work on the iPad (using
Google Maps) as well as on the Mac?

On 2012-12-27 20:03:11 +0000, Graham Harrison said:

"Gary" wrote in message
eb.com...
When planning a trip I am constantly looking for answers to questions
in the format spelled out in the Subject. Examples:

Search for chinese restaurant in or near Dillon, SC
Search for Hampton Inn in or near Rocky Mount, NC
Search for Pancake House restaurant in or near Embassy Suites,
Deerfield Beach, FL

Does anyone knoow of a web site that coujld answer questions like these?


No, but I can do it in easy steps using Google.

1) Search Dillon NC
2) Click on Map
3) Clear the search box above the map which will say Dillon SC
4) now search (in the box you just cleared) Chinese Restaurant

Result - 3 in Dillon SC.

It's not foolproof; there's an IHOP in Deerfield Beach but if you
search Pancake House on a map of Deerfield Beach IHOP doesn't show.
Oh, wait, maybe that's not such a surprise!

Web site to ask questions like "Search for xxxxxxxx in or near yyyyyyyy"
 

"Gary Lotto" wrote in message
eb.com...
Thanks, Graham. May I assume that this will work on the iPad (using
Google Maps) as well as on the Mac?

On 2012-12-27 20:03:11 +0000, Graham Harrison said:

"Gary" wrote in message
eb.com...
When planning a trip I am constantly looking for answers to questions in
the format spelled out in the Subject. Examples:

Search for chinese restaurant in or near Dillon, SC
Search for Hampton Inn in or near Rocky Mount, NC
Search for Pancake House restaurant in or near Embassy Suites, Deerfield
Beach, FL

Does anyone knoow of a web site that coujld answer questions like these?


No, but I can do it in easy steps using Google.

1) Search Dillon NC
2) Click on Map
3) Clear the search box above the map which will say Dillon SC
4) now search (in the box you just cleared) Chinese Restaurant

Result - 3 in Dillon SC.

It's not foolproof; there's an IHOP in Deerfield Beach but if you search
Pancake House on a map of Deerfield Beach IHOP doesn't show. Oh, wait,
maybe that's not such a surprise!



I don't see why not. Google do give different results according to whether
you are logged in to your Google account or not and I wouldn't put it past
them to change results based on other things they "know" about you. There
have been stories that Amazon shows the same items but different prices to
people using iPads so the only way of being sure is experiment.

Web site to ask questions like "Search for xxxxxxxx in or near yyyyyyyy"
 

In the last episode of
om, Gary
said:

When planning a trip I am constantly looking for answers to questions
in the format spelled out in the Subject. Examples:

Google?

Search for chinese restaurant in or near Dillon, SC

http://bit.ly/RkXTVe

Search for Hampton Inn in or near Rocky Mount, NC

http://bit.ly/RkXUbW

Search for Pancake House restaurant in or near Embassy Suites,
Deerfield Beach, FL

This one, we have to kick over to Google Maps directly.

https://maps.google.ca/maps?hl=en&safe=off&q=Pancake%20House%20restaurant %20in%20or%20near%20Embassy%20Suites%2C%20Deerfiel d%20Beach%2C%20FL&bav=on.2,or.r_gc.r_pw.r_cp.r_qf. &bvm=bv.1355534169,d.cGE&bpcl=40096503&ion=1&biw=1 366&bih=681&noj=1&um=1&ie=UTF-8&sa=N&tab=wl

It confirms the location since "in or near" isn't followed by an
address, click on the address on the left-hand column and it will show
you useful results.

Does anyone knoow of a web site that coujld answer questions like these?

Google?



--
The nice thing about standards, there is enough for everyone to have their own.

if you seek Pancake House on a map of Deerfield Beach IHOP doesn't show. Oh, wait,maybe that's not such a surprise!

for me, I prefer use google search engine to find any destinations. if you want to know reviews about the place, you can find out forum like here