Well, I guess that was careless of me. In my actual site when I checked for 
other results I was using a different example and there was only the one 
result (you can try 'Lakeshore Rd', then 'Lakeshore Rd, Mississauga' and 
see), so I didn't check when I created the demo and suggested the 'Queen 
St' example. 

In any case, I still don't see how a not very long street in a small town 
would be considered "more relevant" than the streets in the larger cities 
actually inside the bounds, or even a major street in the largest city in 
the country which is actually closer to bounds and doesn't even make it to 
the list. In the Queen St case, of the 3 actually within the bounds, only 
one even makes it to the results list at number 3. And it's not just this 
one street, I have other examples where a major street within the bounds is 
not returned at all, so checking the bounds explicitly as suggested 
wouldn't help (see 'Lakeshore Rd' above). This just doesn't make sense to 
me. The only way I can get it to return actually relevant results is a 
hack: I append the city name to the end of the address string if it is not 
there already. 

Can Google provide some insight into how their 'relevance' algorithm works? 
Because it seems a bit wacky to me...


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