Suggest as you type for mobile devices? related patent filling by Google

Looks like Google wants to do something pretty similar to suggest as you type for mobile devices. Obviously makes sense as you do have a more or less closed database of locations and business- types and names to build the suggest “dictionary” from.

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Locals Only - the one stop local search news source?

locals_onlyA new column at searchengineland was introduced yesterday - Locals Only - Greg Sterling wrote that
“Locals Only will appear on Mondays, covering local search, mapping, online yellow pages and other sites that help searchers pinpoint real-world merchants, service providers and other location-based entities.”

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YELP.COM home of Young Digerati, Bohemian Mix & American Dreams

Nope this is not a couple of just fancy names I came up with, these are social demographic groups PRIZM NE segments the US population by. They do this within 66 segments, based upon where people live, along with other factors like age, household income levels, household size, etc. The two top ones for Yelp being Young Digerati and Bohemian Mix.

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