'place' command is not working

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What steps will reproduce the problem?
1. enter 'place `someplace`' and hit enter

What is the expected output? What do you see instead?
I expected a map with the place I just entered but am presented with
"Error: Place "someplace" not found."

Original issue reported on code.google.com by benjamin...@gmail.com on 17 Nov 2010 at 9:39

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I'm leaving in Brazil, so I don't know if its a local issue or globally. For 
testing I also typed New York ... sadly same results.

Original comment by julio.lo...@gmail.com on 2 Apr 2011 at 2:44

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doesn't work for me either. (I'm in the US.)

Original comment by tamme...@gmail.com on 19 Apr 2011 at 4:20

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I'm from Russia and I have the same problem. Tryed even "New York", with the 
same result: nothing. Please, fix it, your shell is awesome!

Original comment by adresatt@gmail.com on 31 May 2011 at 8:31

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I get a slightly different issue in Chromium on Debian from New Zealand:

Error: Operation timed out. 1388388397180
If you use the noscript firefox-extension, add "ajax.googleapis.com" to the 
whitelist.

Original comment by bart...@gmail.com on 30 Dec 2013 at 7:27

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An update on my previous comment; the error I get is:

Failed to load resource: the server responded with a status of 403 (Forbidden) 
http://maps.google.com/maps/geo?q=auckland&output=json&callback=goosh.modobj.pla
ce.render&key=ABQIAAAA0cXSEVCNSwf_x74KTtPJMRQP4Q7D8MPck7bhT7upyfJTzVDU2BRxkUdd2A
vzlDDF7DNUJI_Y4eB6Ug&lang=en&context=1388388397180&

When I follow that link, I get this error:

We're sorry...

... but your computer or network may be sending automated queries. To protect 
our users, we can't process your request right now.

See Google Help for more information.

Original comment by bart...@gmail.com on 30 Dec 2013 at 7:31