Google cria uma patente para busca de localidades e mapeamento em dispositivos móveis. A patente visa auxiliar a localização no mundo físico interfaceando o google maps e mostrando os resultados nas telas de celulares. Assim, o usuário coloca o nome do estabelecimento e o CEP, por exemplo, e o mapa dá a localização exata no celular. Cruza-se dessa forma banco de dados, locative media, mobilidade. Trata-se como mostamos em trabalho homônimo (ver link artigos à esquerda) de novos processos de territorialização, ou seja, de controle informacional sobre o mundo na relação intersticial do ciberespaço e do espaço urbano.
Vejam a matéria The future of Google mobile search: mapped results no Ars Technica.
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“Google’s patented method starts with sending search queries to the server with location information attached. The location information could come from user input (a search for “pizza 60640,” for example), a static saved location for that device, or GPS data from the phone. The server would then respond with results based around that location, formatted for a mobile device.
However, the results would not be displayed in list format as they are in Google’s current mobile search. The phone would instead display something resembling a small version of Google Maps with the search results displayed using markers on the map, just like they are on Google Maps when viewed on a PC. The map could be zoomed in to different degrees, depending on how many results there are. Google wants to display up to nine results at a time for the user to choose from, and those nine results could be located in a very condensed geographic area or spread out. Why nine? Because each result can be mapped to a number button on the phone’s key pad.”