Everyone seems to be talking about and implementing location based services. It's an interesting area : but is the right problem being worked on? I've needed t

Everyone seems to be talking about and implementing location based services. It's an interesting area : but is the right problem being worked on? I've needed to use a service like near me now just a few times in my life. Most of the time I do not wait till I am standing in a street in a particular place to start finding out what restaurants are around there. A more useful service is this: searching within a crowded shopping street. Imagine you go to a shopping street, and there are crowds and stores everywhere. You could walk into all stores searching for that perfect bag, but what if you could just type 'bag' into your phone and it shows you all the hot bags currently being shopped at that street, and where exactly it is? Real world searching is a good application of LBS. More useful than knowing the next restaurant.