Yahoo India has launched it’s Local search service in India. Yahoo Local search initially launched for Delhi, Mumbai, Bangalore, and Chennai. Yahoo has integrated Yahoo India maps, weather information in Indian Local search service. Yahoo India Local search offers users to search restaurants, pubs, health clubs, and shopping malls, they are led to the business detail page where they get details along with driving directions on how to get there.

Another feature of local search is ‘EssentiaList’; it isn’t completely functional as of now but is meant for packaging data in the most usable format. Currently, Yahoo! local search offers two types of ‘Essentialists’, I.e. moving to Koramangala, getting married in Koramangala with the idea expandable to other contexts and cities.

Yahoo! local search includes a feature similar to that in Yahoo! Maps wherein users can send directions to their mobile phones as SMS. Yahoo local search could be a competitor to existing players: Google Local, Justdial, Burrp, Guruji. and askLaila, to name a few.

Yahoo India Local search is open for editing the data, for editing data only requirement is you mus have a valid Yahoo email id.

Visit Yahoo India Local Search Website

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