I just met with two of the product managers of Ask.com outside of one of the sessions at the Supernova conference.
We had a good discussion about the fact that in the last months Google search results just got worse.
They told me about a new way to look for things in the city using their maps search.
I decided to give it a try and I got to say - cool! I was very impressed.
on the right side of the screen you have the map. The nice thing is that you can actually use some drawing tools to draw on the map the area where you want to look for things.
In my test I marked Market St. in San Francisco and searched for clubs. After less than a second i got a list (also appears on the map) of all the clubs on the part of Market St. which I marked.
So easy and very cool!
