Translating search strings into physical locations

摘要

This description provides tools and techniques for translating search strings into physical locations. These tools may provide methods that include retrieving search strings, and requesting translation of the search strings to one or more corresponding physical locations. These methods may also receive representations of the corresponding physical locations, and provide the representations of the physical locations as input to a navigation engine.

主权项

1. A non-transitory computer-readable storage medium having computer-executable instructions stored thereon which, when executed by a computer, cause the computer to perform a method comprising:
receiving a search string for translation into a physical location, wherein the search string is received from a call log of a mobile device; searching a plurality of representations of search strings for the search string received, the plurality of representations of search strings associated with physical locations; in response to locating the search string in the plurality of representations of search strings, determining the physical location associated with the search string, the physical location corresponding to a location of an entity represented by the search string; and providing the physical location as input to a navigation engine for navigating to the location of the search string.