I have many friends who are ardent fans of google service. I, myself, am a strong advocate of yahoo services. But today, live.com impressed me completely.
A friend called asking me for directions to IKEA, Renton. Google did not disappoint me at all and helped me find the address("600 SW 180th St, Renton, WA 98055"). Next thing I did was ask Yahoo Driving Directions by entering my address and IKEA's address. It couldn't resolve the destination address at all. :(
Okay, now I ask Google Maps for help. I start off by entering IKEA's address. Wow! It found where IKEA is. But there's no hint of what's North or what's East. I see a nice balloon proferring a "To Here" link and as soon as I enter my address (so that I can figure out directions) - Google completely sweeps me off the floor by asking "Did you mean: 7300 S 180th St, Renton, WA 98055". God knows what happened to it's previous memory of where IKEA, Renton was. :((
Now - i go to local.live.com and enter IKEA's address followed by my address as source. It resolves it pretty smoothly and gives me all I want. Now, the new service by Microsoft neither has the orientations pointed out (just like Google) nor has the flexibility for me to enter source and destination addresses at the same time (unlike Yahoo) but it offered a solution to my problem and that's what matters!
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My friend could not repro the google problem and we spent a couple of minutes figuring out the bug. The bug was "SW" was converted to "S" by google when I asked it to find directions.
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