March 17, 2004

Google goes local – forgets sort?

But a comment… what’s up with Google’s “new” local search (in case you are Andy Rooney).

It’s a great idea, but what inter­face designer fell asleep at the wheel… on the results page you can’t sort by dis­tance.

You can narrow the results to cer­tain radii, but I can’t actu­ally sort by the dis­tance column… am I the only one who thinks this is a no brainer.

I did a search for chi­nese and my address trying to find a good place to walk to, but I can’t sort the results. I can view the map, I can men­tally cat­a­log the dis­tances, but that’s not the same as sort­ing and then imme­di­ately seeing the clos­est restaurant.

And in clos­ing, a request to Google, or any­body listening… would you please make your next project a mass-​transit direc­tions site, because the one I have to use stinks.

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