http://www.boygeniusreport.com/2008/03/24/new-hidden-google-mobile-service-revealed/
"There is a new Google mobile service that Google doesnt want you to know about. Were not sure why they would keep it from you; its actually pretty cool. Google mobile "LCB" was uncovered by picking apart a publicly available file containing a list of all pages that crawlers shouldnt be able to see. Essentially, LCB is an interesting move away from Googles typical offerings. A "searchless search" in a sense, it allows the user to input a location and then browse through seven predefined categories such as Food / Restaurant and Entertainment to find a business listing. Once a desired result is listed, users can quickly and easily map the address and surrounding area. Perhaps its some kind of walking around quick access service. The seven top categories are pretty straight forward and sensible, except for one: "Googleplex". While testing, we entered an New Jersey zip code and used the Googleplex search. Oddly, it fired back restaurant, bank and entertainment results from in and around Manhattan. Either Google constructed a New York campus while we were looking the other way, or the Googleplex entry is there as a placeholder for some kind of internal testing. Were going with the latter."
http://www.google.com/m/lcb
Google relentlessly striving for more general mobile (& Android features)?
or
Preparation for a A-GPS enabled 3G iPhone? Hehe
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"There is a new Google mobile service that Google doesnt want you to know about. Were not sure why they would keep it from you; its actually pretty cool. Google mobile "LCB" was uncovered by picking apart a publicly available file containing a list of all pages that crawlers shouldnt be able to see. Essentially, LCB is an interesting move away from Googles typical offerings. A "searchless search" in a sense, it allows the user to input a location and then browse through seven predefined categories such as Food / Restaurant and Entertainment to find a business listing. Once a desired result is listed, users can quickly and easily map the address and surrounding area. Perhaps its some kind of walking around quick access service. The seven top categories are pretty straight forward and sensible, except for one: "Googleplex". While testing, we entered an New Jersey zip code and used the Googleplex search. Oddly, it fired back restaurant, bank and entertainment results from in and around Manhattan. Either Google constructed a New York campus while we were looking the other way, or the Googleplex entry is there as a placeholder for some kind of internal testing. Were going with the latter."
http://www.google.com/m/lcb
Google relentlessly striving for more general mobile (& Android features)?
or
Preparation for a A-GPS enabled 3G iPhone? Hehe
Image and info from boygeniusreport.com
