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My test for any search engine is:

"Best California style burrito in Austin".

Nearly every engine shows me burrito shops in California, some give shove reddit links to the top. Google was the only decent response. Phind response is what I would expect from an assistant who researched this for 5-10 minutes of searching the web. Great work!

(now add maps to those results!)




Location-aware search is one area where it's very tricky to compete with Google. Google Maps/reviews is a phenomenal product. Happy to hear that Phind worked for you here, but we're more focused on the developer/technical search use case for now.


No, for that search what you need to understand is "in <location>" vs "<location> style". Which you could get with supporting n-grams, frankly.




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