Bwahaha!

[drplokta]

So The Register had a story on how Google Maps UK lets you search for anything near to a location, including brothels. Hmm, I thought, I wonder what it will think is a brothel near to home.

sneerpout may not be too happy with the result.

And here is the result. I've halved the size to make the file smaller, but I trust that answer B is still legible.

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[flickgc.livejournal.com]

[snork]

Oops...

Actuall, I can see the logic. Hmm.

[ang-grrr.livejournal.com]

*howl*

No wonder she's been busy. Week at the Hague, is that what they are calling it now...

[profundo-rosso.livejournal.com]

I can see the Sun exclusive now: The Institute for Phwoar and Peace Reporting: You'd Be Amazed What They'll Take Down...

[frandowdsofa.livejournal.com]

My home postcode brothel search gives:

Sheffield City Council
0114 272 6444 - 1.8 mi N
BBC Radio Sheffield
0114 273 1177 - 1.5 mi N
South Yorkshire Passenger Transport Exeuctive
01709 515151 - 1.9 mi N

which I take as clear indication that the Millennium Paradise Sauna at the bottom of our street has definitely closed down, which we weren't sure about.

[pixiejuice.livejournal.com]

If you search 'brothel' and 'manchester', result G is British Broadcasting Corporation.

[profundo-rosso.livejournal.com]

Tony Berry used to live within a minute's walk of a pub, a massage parlour and a chocolate warehouse. All his potential cravings catered for, although I don't think he even used the pub.

A fine example of the problems of...

[sbisson.livejournal.com]

...keyword search without context...

I suspect IWPR has written articles about the forced sex trade in the Balkans. The same search around here highlights Amnesty International for what I guess will be much the same reason...

[armb.livejournal.com]

I get BBC Radio Cambridgeshire ("A BBC Radio Cambridgeshire investigation has found a flourishing and growing sex industry in the county"), the Medical Research Council (with an extract making me wonder what "brothel-broth" was, but it's a paper on "Units of representation in visual word recognition"), a shop ("occupies the site of a medieval brothel"), and a pub ("having at times been a brothel, a gin palace").

"The web pages below contain brothel and addresses near cambridge" section does start off with escort agencies - from www.yellowpages.co.nz, so I think the localization of which Cambridge could be improved.

[ajshepherd.livejournal.com]

The place where Simo and I used to share a flat used to be a brothel. (Strange house. Pebbledashed on the inside...)
Occasionally furtive men would appear and get very confused.

[swisstone.livejournal.com]

The one and only result I get is Kent County Constabulary HQ in Maidstone. Make of that what you wish.

[i-ate-my-crusts.livejournal.com]

That icon! *swoon*

[ang-grrr.livejournal.com]

Oh my. I think this result is worthy of a top level entry...

[vandaaway.livejournal.com]

I'd thought that Southern California would be better served than Sheffield, but our nearest brothel turns out to be 29 miles away. But at least the "Academy of Motion Picture Arts & Sciences" comes in at number 3 on the list, which shouldn't be much of a suprise.