Yahoo! India launches Local Beta

Mumbai, Jun 10 (UNI) Yahoo India today announced the launch of its new local information destination, Yahoo! India Local (beta), available at local.yahoo.in.

This new offering provided a compelling user experience with relevant local information that impacts users' daily needs.

Yahoo! India Local was available across Delhi/NCR, Chennai, Mumbai and Bangalore. It provided rich local information such as business listings, maps and directions, local events, and current movies. Users could 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, Yahoo India stated in a release here. Local businesses across categories can now get listed for free on Yahoo! India Local. When users search for those categories, the businesses could 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,'' Yahoo! India Head of Audience Gopal Krishna. ''With this innovative product, we are trying to make the web more useful, engaging, interesting and localised to our users,'' he added.

The product was conceptualised and developed by the Yahoo! India team in collaboration with the Yahoo! India Research&Development team.

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