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Yahoo! India launches Local Beta
By siliconindia
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Thursday, 12 June 2008, 01:39 IST
Bangalore: The Internet firm Yahoo! India has announced the launch of its new local information destination, Yahoo! India Local (beta), which is available at local.yahoo.in. This new offering provides a compelling user experience with relevant local information that impacts users� daily needs. Yahoo! India Local is presently available across Delhi / NCR, Chennai, Mumbai and Bangalore.
Yahoo! India Local provides rich local information such as business listings, maps and directions, local events, and current movies. Users can get listings from a wide range of categories such as restaurants, pubs, shopping malls, hospitals, schools, tailors, banks, health and fitness, and 24 hour pharmacies.
Users can write reviews, leave footprints, mark businesses on the map, add listings or events on Yahoo! India Local. Contributions shared by the community provide users with real insights into their experiences, thereby making them better informed.
Local businesses across categories can now get listed for free on Yahoo! India Local. When users search for those categories, the businesses can get discovered.
"Yahoo! India Local (Beta) exemplifies our strategy to be the leading starting point on the web, by providing the most relevant and compelling experience for local needs", said Gopal Krishna, Head of Audience, Yahoo! India. "With this innovative product, we are trying to make the web more useful, engaging, interesting and localized to our users," he added.
This product was conceptualized and developed by the Yahoo! India team in collaboration with the Yahoo! India Research & Development team.
With 'Essentialist', Yahoo! India Local aims to provide practical solutions for common problems. For example, relocating to Indira Nagar in Bangalore can get you an 'Essentialist' that will provide details of essential services such as nearest gas agency, cable TV provider, provision stores, pharmacies and packers and movers.
"Designed to create an active and vibrant community, Yahoo! India Local will enable its users to harness community knowledge. With user-friendly tools like reviews and footprints, people can now find, use, share and enhance their local information at ease," said Sridhar Ranganathan, Business Head, Local & Maps, Yahoo! India.
