How to Get Geocoding Search Results

public static XElement GetGeocodingSearchResults(string address) {

            // Use the Google Geocoding service to get information about the user-entered address

            // See http://code.google.com/apis/maps/documentation/geocoding/index.html for more info...

            var url = String.Format("http://maps.google.com/maps/api/geocode/xml?address={0}&sensor=false", HttpContext.Current.Server.UrlEncode(address));

            // Load the XML into an XElement object (whee, LINQ to XML!)

            var results = XElement.Load(url);

            // Check the status

            var status = results.Element("status").Value;

            if (status != "OK" && status != "ZERO_RESULTS")

                // Whoops, something else was wrong with the request...

                throw new ApplicationException("There was an error with Google's Geocoding Service: " + status);

            return results;

        }