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joveblue
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Join Date: Aug 2006
Location: Melbourne
 
2009-09-13, 05:35

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Originally Posted by chucker View Post
Not currently possible — Safari doesn't expose your location information yet. It would also lack the interface to ask you permission.
It doesn't have to expose your location information, it just has to send a slightly different URL to Google.

i.e. If you search for 'Applenova' from the Safari search field with your location (according to whatever criteria) set to 'Australia'. it should fetch

http://www.google.com.au/search?client=safari&rls=en&q=Applenova&ie=UTF-8&oe=UTF-8

instead of

http://www.google.com/search?client=safari&rls=en&q=Applenova&ie=UTF-8&oe=UTF-8

Simple, and does not require Safari to expose your location information to anyone, just for Safari to be aware of your location itself. The only problem would be making sure whichever location criteria is chosen, it is accurate (there may be some issues with the city selected under Time Zone if people choose a city from a neighbouring country?).
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