Actually before asking this question I've tried query bq=[item type:restaurants][location: @"33431" +3mi]".
And it returned 0 results. If I just go to maps.google.com and search for restaurants near 33431 then I get thousands of restaurants. The same with AJAX Search API - it returns many restaurants in our area. I know that data is available for Google services but not for publicly available APIs. For example in AJAX Search API you can find links like this: http://www.google.com/maps/place?source=uds&q=asian+restaurant&cid=17223679308419969579 which is showing very detailed information about the business. But there is no way get the same information from Google Base API. So back to my original question about <g:item_type type="text">Restaurants</g:item_type>. Technically speaking adding "[item type:Restaurants]" to the query should filter response by item type. Real testing shows that it doesn't work so: if I sent query without item type filter, then i got 4 results with different item types, but when I did so with item type it returned 0. Does anybody knows is it intentional behavior of public API (just hiding information) or it is a bug? Thank you! On Jan 19, 12:40 am, Celebird <[email protected]> wrote: > to restrict the item-type to restaurants use: > bq=[item type:restaurants] > > but the item-type data submitted by users would > probably need to be defined-by and enforced > by google -- or some collective adherence to > a set of rules -- for such queries to behave; > for example, items would need proper location attributes. > > since neither is true and there seems to be > only 53 total results for that item-type the > results will be rather sparse. > > the results are at the mercy of the lack of data. > > i believe the example was rather abstract and academic; > maybe at one point in time the item-type had more data -- > or, is this item-type data you're submitting.
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