News - Google launches location extension for mobile display ads

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Advertisers can target smartphone users near their businesses with new tool.

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Hmm, got mixed views on this:

= being able to see where the nearest curry house is;

= wasting my precious bandwidth getting spamverts.

Actually discovered at the weekend that the CoPilot nav software on Android has the ability to let you select a nearby POI (for example, Pizza Hut) and then call it. Can't see me using that feature, but it's nice to have it I guess.

Bob