Power To The (Local) People…
- Posted August 15th, 2007 at 10:47 am by Yahoo! Search
- Categories: Local
The team here at Yahoo! Local, the source behind the shortcuts that appear at the top of the search results page when you do searches like “New York, NY restaurants,” rolled out some new features today. We’ve been working on some changes to our Local search capabilities to better utilize the millions of user ratings, reviews and other user-generated content from our community, to ensure their voices are heard loud and clear in your search results. For example, a search for “Romantic French Restaurant, SF,” will deliver the following leader board:
There are also new opportunities to offer up your opinion and experiences with people in your community with the new Yahoo! Local. In particular, you can now comment on user reviews in addition to reading other people’s and be a part of a vocal and active user community. We hope that the additional opinions and reviews will help make everyday decisions like picking a florist, finding a great day spa and zeroing in on the nearest Starbucks that much easier for you.
You can check out more details on the new features — ranging from new ways to learn about events to new “My Local” functionality — over at the Yahoo! Local Blog so head there for more detail.
Try it out yourself, update your Yahoo! Local profile and tell us what you think at the Yahoo! Local Suggestion Board.
Brian Gil
Product Manager, Yahoo! Local
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Congrats on the launch, it looks really good! The enhanced search functionality will definitely come in handy.
What about something like a reward program to encourage more reviews and comments?
Good site! Good resources here, All the best!
Yahoo keeps coming up with excellent new stuff.
I’ve just tested this out and it’s good. I’ll flag this new development.
It would be great if this was available in Asia.
Is there a facility for people to leave tesimonials or comments for each location?
You’ve got some excellent ideas going here. I think this is certainly going to launch Yahoo! Back in my use list. For a while, I stopped using Yahoo. But it looks like the Yahoo! Team is starting to come thoroughly back on track. Supporting you guys now I’m pretty sure there’s a lot more good stuff like this where it came from!
Hi Brian, this is excellent. I will have to start going out more often now that I know where to go.
Excellent resources. I will have to spend more time using this and will try to give you some more feedback.