Building on the mobile mapping capabilities that Google rolled out last November, the search giant is launching a new location-awareness capability called Search with My Location.

Previously, when a Windows Mobile handset user went to Google.com from the phone’s browser for a local search, the results were tailored to the last location entered, noted Google software engineers Terry Van Belle and Tim Cox in a new blog.

Google’s newly introduced mobile-search technology, which is powered by a new

Gears Geolocation API, “makes searching for nearby businesses on Windows Mobile phones both faster and easier,” the members of Google’s mobile team wrote.

Cell-ID Broadcasts

Google’s API relies on a number of location sources to estimate the user’s position. For example, the technology can take cell-ID broadcasts from multiple cellular towers and sift them through Google-developed algorithms to approximate a user’s current location.

“Now, using the Gears Geolocation API, Search with […]

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