pleeker - 7:19 pm on Mar 17, 2004 (gmt 0)

I see they took down the whole thing.

It's a beta, so availability will be hit and miss. But local.google.com is not down (at this moment), and I still see the local tool available -- sometimes on the regular Google.com, and sometimes only after toggling to the new look.

I don't know if I think this is a flaw or not, but the SERPs are different if you type in just the zip code, as compared to just the city name ... and different yet again if you search for the city name and the zip. That's odd.

And the location information changes, too. Type in the zip code, and one client is .1 miles away. Type in the city name and suddenly they're .7 miles away. Hmmmmm.......