In talking over this on the IRC channel (shameless plug, you can jump on here: http://webchat.freenode.net/?channels=googleajaxapis ) we came up with the following question:
What is the relationship between gl=, sll=, and q keywords in deciding between locations with similar names (Dunedin, New Zealand vs Dunedin, Florida)? It seems like for your queries which included the city and state and/ or country in the q keywords worked as expected but gl and sll were not always determining factors, though sometimes they were. For example: http://ajax.googleapis.com/ajax/services/search/local?v=1.0&sll=-36.847385,174.765735&q=clothes+Dunedin vs http://ajax.googleapis.com/ajax/services/search/local?v=1.0&sll=-36.847385,174.765735&q=clothes It seems then that at the moment the q parameter's location information is factored in, so the safest bet would be to include the city's region/country. Happy coding, Jeff On Mar 2, 4:38 pm, chris burgess <[email protected]> wrote: > Trying to use local search to retrieve local listings. As you would :) > > http://googleajaxsearchapi.blogspot.com/2009/10/web-search-in-your-co... > indicates that the 'gl' parameter should do this for web searches. > > This doesn't appear to work with local searches though, which seems > odd. > > Results for the following two URLs differ (the latter is NZ-only): > *http://ajax.googleapis.com/ajax/services/search/web?v=1.0&q=clothes > *http://ajax.googleapis.com/ajax/services/search/web?v=1.0&gl=nz&q=clo... > > Results for the following two URLs are the same: > *http://ajax.googleapis.com/ajax/services/search/local?v=1.0&q=clothes > *http://ajax.googleapis.com/ajax/services/search/local?v=1.0&gl=nz&q=c... > > Am I missing some other aspect of local search? > > While the above examples are simplified, a "live" example which IMO > shouldn't return results from Florida (there are >1 Dunedin cities > worldwide) is, > > *http://ajax.googleapis.com/ajax/services/search/local?v=1.0&gl=nz&sll... -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Google AJAX APIs" group. To post to this group, send email to [email protected]. To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [email protected]. For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/google-ajax-search-api?hl=en.
