gistfile1.txt

curl -v "https://maps.googleapis.com/maps/api/place/search/json?sensor=true&key=censored&location=38.897,-77.036&radius=&language=en-US&name=Starbucks&rankby=prominence&types="

 *snip*

< HTTP/1.1 200 OK
< Content-Type: application/json; charset=UTF-8
< Date: Tue, 09 Oct 2012 22:17:25 GMT
< Server: mafe
< Cache-Control: private
< X-XSS-Protection: 1; mode=block
< X-Frame-Options: SAMEORIGIN
< Transfer-Encoding: chunked
< 
{
   "html_attributions" : [],
   "results" : [],
   "status" : "INVALID_REQUEST"
}

One man's 400 Bad Request is another man's 200 OK I suppose.