If you are travelling to a new city and are trying to locate Wi-Fi hotspots around to access the Internet, both Bing and Google may help you find the information you are looking for.

Go to Bing.com and search for “wireless hotspots near Perth, Australia.” Replace Perth, Australia with the name of your city. If you happen to be in the U.S., you may even use pstcodes with the search query as in the following examples:
1. Wireless Hotspots near Manhattan, New York
2. Wi-Fi Hotspots near 10005
3. Wifi Hotspots near Berlin, Germany

You should switch to the U.S. edition of Bing to use the hotspot finder feature though they do have hotspot location data for other world cities as well.

Google Maps can also be used for finding Wi-Fi hotspots anywhere in the world and the syntax is pretty similar to that of Bing. For example:
1. Wireless Hotspots in Lima
2. Wi-Fi Hotspots near Singapore
3. WiFi Hotspots near Cape Town, South Africa

Google Maps gets data from business owners as well as listings on travel sites as these listings may have information on whether that place offers wireless internet or not.

The search engines do not distinguish between free (at cafes) and paid-for (at a business address) wireless, so you may have to look through the available WiFi hotspots located on the map if you're after a free hotspot. In any case, it's a great tool to use if you're heading overseas and want to know where you can connect to the internet once you're there.