[chippy]

This is similar to Yahoo's old Placemaker and a few other services out there. Extracting locations is quite tricky.

I tried "St Francis near the statue of liberty. Going to new york to see the queen." but it gave a zero results result.

[s3f0]

Try this: St Francis near the Statue of Liberty. Going to New York to see the queen. You have use small caps, we are sensitive to small caps :)