Google has launched their local search which limits results to a localion you specify. In the first search box you enter your keywords and in the second you enter a full address, city/state, or just a zip code. My test search for ‘pizza’ in ‘Greece, NY’ quickly found the place I’m having dinner at tonight. If you’re not someone who travel’s a lot you have the option of Google remembering the entered location. I plan on using this to find bookstores in rural KS next week.
Michael Sauers is currently the Director of Technology for Do Space in Omaha, NE. Michael has been training librarians in technology for the past twenty years and has also been a public library trustee, a bookstore manager for a library friends group, a reference librarian, serials cataloger, technology consultant, and bookseller since earning his MLS in 1995 from the University at Albany’s School of Information Science and Policy. Michael has also written dozens of articles for various journals and magazines and his fourteenth book, Emerging Technologies: A Primer for Librarians (w/ Jennifer Koerber) was published in May 2015 and more books are on the way. In his spare time he blogs at travelinlibrarian.info, runs The Collector’s Guide to Dean Koontz Web site, takes many, many photos, and typically reads more than 100 books a year.
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