Patent Application Number: 2007342244
Filing Date: December 06, 2007Priority Date: January 05, 2007
Inventors: Keith David Saft, Meher Tendjoukian, Edward Stanley Ott, Marco Boerries, Paul Yiu
Applicants: Yahoo! Inc
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The method of claim 17, wherein the primary search term is a keyword, and wherein the physical location refines the search query to search for information associated with the keyword for the physical location.

Submitted by: Jimmy TiLast updated: over 2 years ago
Patent/Application # 7603360
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This patent describes a very similar idea of using information to provide more relevant search results and enhancements for many other network-based activities. Basically, search is refined with the knowledge of location and other information, and location information can be gathered via GPS module, GSM cell tower triangulation or be provided manually by the user when performing the search.
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