# Monday, July 06, 2009
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I am about to leave on a trip and suddenly felt the need to get a USB adapter to allow me to partner a phone and computer via Bluetooth. I found several options online and at reasonable prices but with my short timeframe I couldn’t get it shipped to me so I started looking for a bricks and mortar solution. I pulled up a search engine that touts itself as having more information about local businesses than others and searched for computer. I was mainly looking for phone numbers since I thought I knew the computer stores in the area. I found a couple of new entries and decided to look them up. One of them had the following page provided by the search engine.

Despite having an address the default map seems to show me a 500 mile radius. It wasn't at all useful. I thought it might be due to the address having a street name where most addresses in this area are based on a grid system with numeric values for north/south and east/west. After clicking on the zoom in button 10 times and sliding the map around because it didn't zoom in on the pushpin I was able to get to this map image

Obviously the map knows where the street is and could have mapped it. In the end I ended up not calling the business because they didn't appear to offer what I wanted but if I hadn't been so pressed for time I wouldn't have even messed with clicking the zoom in button 10 times. If I were the advertiser I would be asking the web site to update the map to help drive more business. As it stands I suspect that a lot of people would pass up this business if they couldn't figure out where it is located.

Monday, July 06, 2009 12:31:43 PM (Mountain Standard Time, UTC-07:00)  #    Disclaimer  |  Comments [0]  |