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August 15, 2007

Power To The (Local) People...

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:


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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.


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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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Comments

Congrats on the launch, it looks really good! The enhanced search functionality will definitely come in handy.

Posted by: Brian | August 15, 2007 12:53 PM

Looks really fine! Congratulations.

Posted by: Der Hund | August 16, 2007 08:04 AM

Looks real nice and user friendly!

Posted by: Sterling Silver CZ Jewelry | August 16, 2007 11:33 AM

Thank you for this tool.
Looks real nice and user friendly!

Posted by: GI | August 16, 2007 08:56 PM

Looks real nice and user friendly!

Posted by: kuresel isinmaya hayir | August 16, 2007 10:25 PM

What about something like a reward program to encourage more reviews and comments?

Posted by: The Dog Clothing Company | August 18, 2007 07:07 AM

Good site! Good resources here, All the best!

Posted by: Mari | August 20, 2007 01:53 PM

This site is a lot of fun very well designed.

Posted by: George | August 22, 2007 07:09 AM

thnks

Posted by: kr4l | December 9, 2007 12:03 PM

Good site! Good resources here, All the best!

Posted by: Hikaye | January 9, 2008 07:38 PM

Yahoo keeps coming up with excellent new stuff.

Posted by: Alex Bowden | January 28, 2008 07:45 AM

I've just tested this out and it's good. I'll flag this new development.

Posted by: Condo Bangkok | January 28, 2008 07:49 AM

It would be great if this was available in Asia.

Posted by: Apartment Bangkok | January 28, 2008 07:52 AM

Is there a facility for people to leave tesimonials or comments for each location?

Posted by: Property bangkok | January 30, 2008 05:04 AM

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!

Posted by: luggage | January 31, 2008 09:46 AM

Hi Brian, this is excellent. I will have to start going out more often now that I know where to go.

Posted by: Matt Harrison | February 4, 2008 11:34 PM

Excellent resources. I will have to spend more time using this and will try to give you some more feedback.

Posted by: Bob Simpson | February 4, 2008 11:41 PM