{"id":1895,"date":"2009-07-16T16:43:20","date_gmt":"2009-07-16T14:43:20","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/tokao.com\/?p=1895"},"modified":"2009-07-16T16:43:20","modified_gmt":"2009-07-16T14:43:20","slug":"google-brings-location-to-the-mobile-web-on-the-iphone","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/tokao.com\/wordpress\/2009\/07\/16\/google-brings-location-to-the-mobile-web-on-the-iphone\/","title":{"rendered":"Google Brings Location To The Mobile Web On The iPhone"},"content":{"rendered":"

Google\u2019s updates surrounding location are now coming fast and furious. Just a few days ago it\u00a0added location<\/a> to Google Maps for the Chrome and Firefox browsers. Today,\u00a0it brings location\"\"<\/a> to the mobile web on the iPhone.<\/p>\n

If you have the new iPhone 3.0 software and go to Google\u2019s homepage in Safari, you\u2019ll notice a new message below the search box that reads, \u201cNew! Try My Location to find restaurants, shops and bars near you!\u201d If you click on the My Location link, the iPhone will pop open a dialogue asking if it\u2019s okay for Safari to use the device\u2019s location services to locate you. If you opt-in, you\u2019ll see a new blue dot below the search box with your location next to it. Do a search, and it will return local results.<\/p>\n

The fact that mobile Safari can access location is a huge feature. It\u2019s what\u2019s going to allowGoogle Latitude\"\"<\/a>,\u00a0Google\u2019s location-based social network<\/a>, to work on the device without a native app,\u00a0as we described a few months ago<\/a>. Something else that is potentially interesting about this is that Safari, like some of the other native iPhone apps, can apparently run in the background. Now, I\u2019m not sure if it can still access location services while it\u2019s running in the background, but that could be very interesting for something like Latitude.<\/p>\n

And accessing functionality like location in the browser seems to tie in well with Google\u2019s ultimate goal of having the web be the platform of choice.<\/p>\n

For many people, such a feature will bring up privacy concerns. Here\u2019s what Google has to say about that:<\/p>\n

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As always, your privacy is one of our top concerns. Google won\u2019t use your location in search unless you explicitly opt in. And you can always disable the feature from Preferences at the bottom of the homepage.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Google\u2019s updates surrounding location are now coming fast and furious. Just a few days ago it\u00a0added location to Google Maps for the Chrome and Firefox browsers. Today,\u00a0it brings location to the mobile web on the iPhone. If you have the new iPhone 3.0 software and go to Google\u2019s homepage in Safari, you\u2019ll notice a new […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[9],"class_list":["post-1895","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-technology","tag-google"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/tokao.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1895","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/tokao.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/tokao.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tokao.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tokao.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1895"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/tokao.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1895\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/tokao.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1895"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tokao.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1895"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tokao.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1895"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}