Now this is an interesting variation upon search. Instead of going for the Google approach, garnering every possible mention of something from around the world, why not try  something in local search? After all, there are indeed times when we’re looking for every last piece of information (say, looking up the uses of some metal in my case) from around the globe but it’s a little different if we’re looking for a good local steak restaurant.

At that point we want to have search results which are geographically restricted. You know, which are the local restaurants, rather than a list of all steak houses in the world.

Luckily we’ve now got that, sort of a local yellowpages. Add together Yelp.com, Citysearch.com, Yellowpages.com and Superages.com, all avaliable through just one portal, and that’s just what you’ll get by clicking through any of the links.

Or as my favourite British imported TV program would have it, local searches for local people.