Yahoo Local, information portal developed by the team of Yahoo India and Yahoo! Research and Development department, will facilitate all local information required. Gopal Krishna, head of Audience – Yahoo said that Yahoo! India Local reiterates his strategy to be the leading starting point on the web by providing the most relevant and compelling experiences for local needs. He further added that with this innovative product he is trying to make the web more useful, engaging, interesting, and local to all the users.

 

The local information site is available in four metros of Delhi, Mumbai, Chennai, and Bangalore. The site is accessible through local.yahoo.in. The site facilitates enormous amount of information under the categories such as pubs, shopping malls, hospitals, tailors, schools, banks, health, and fitness, and 24 hrs pharmacies as well. Besides, business listings, map and directions, local events, movies, users can add in the information too by simply adding events to the listing, posting reviews, leaving foot-prints, mark businesses on the map etc.

 

Talking about the best feature of Yahoo Local, Sridhar Rangnathan, business head of Local & Maps, said that Yahoo! India Local would enable its users to harness community knowledge. On Yahoo! India Local, users can find, use, share and enhance (FUSE) local information at ease while small businesses and local merchants can grow their businesses as online users discover them here.