Windows Mobile gets location-based searches thanks to Google's GeolocationAPI
By Sean Cooper 
posted Sep 11th 2008 11:22PM
posted Sep 11th 2008 11:22PM
Google search on Windows Mobile -- full list of supported devices can be found by following the read link -- just beefed up local searching with the same tech used by Google Maps for Mobile. By grabbing information about the cell towers near you, searches are tailored to your location rather than you having to enter one. For example, entering "Taco Bell" would find the store nearest you, not all of em in your home town. The service is currently only supported in the US and the UK, but as with everything Google's up to -- like world domination -- it'll show up in your locale soon enough. We're fresh out of Windows Mobile devices today, so feel free to hit us up with your experiences.[Via Phonescoop]
Not Impressed
Feh, barely useful if you have a non-GPS WinMo phone. If you got a WinMo phone in 2007/2008 and you're reading Engad-Mob then you have GPS and you'll want the many benefits of Live Search instead. Google's is ancient iPhone v1 tech.
i dont have GPS on my WinMo phone i bought in 2007. well that's not entirely true, it supports it but i just refuse to pay Verizon for it.
yeah, google's way behind on this one. what's cool about live search is even if you don't have gps it still finds what is closest to your set location, or any of your contacts. this seems more like an annoyance because when i use google it is usually to look up websites or porn. NOT to find stuff locally.
Not Impressed
Feh, barely useful if you have a non-GPS WinMo phone. If you got a WinMo phone in 2007/2008 and you're reading Engad-Mob then you have GPS and you'll want the many benefits of Live Search instead. Google's is ancient iPhone v1 tech.
See the difference between the original headline from phonescoop to engadgetmobile's headline... this headline suggests that this is something that WinMos didnt have and google came to save us.
Totally unaccurate. I live in Ohio, it thought I was in Coppell, TX!! I rebooted my Q9c and tried again- Now I'm in Oak Park, Ill. Ya, that got uninstalled.....
It works well for me in Google Maps using just the cell tower information. My phone has GPS, but by the time it hooks up with the satellites I've usually already found what I was looking for since the it finds the cell tower location so fast.
this is exactly my experience with it, too.
I'm in Ohio, and the google search said I am in Chicago, WTF?!