Google Local vs. Yahoo! Local

Martin Tobias points to Google's beta of Google Local and gives his critique.

I agree with all of Martin's criticisms.  Google Local isn't ready for prime time yet.

My favorite implementation of local "search" is Yahoo! Local.

Here is a Yahoo! Local map of our office location with a graphic showing of all the nearby ATMs.  This is a really great service.

The one thing that's missing from Yahoo! Local that Google Local does deliver is a simple search interface.

We'll have to see if Yahoo! can get their front end right before Google gets their back end right.

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I saw his posts on it, and tried his suggested Judy's Books? out and it completely flopped (bringing up no pizza joints but 1 lawyer!?!??) when i tried to find a pizza joint.. and I've also used Yahoo's service in the past but wasn't terribly impressed with the interface as you've mentioned...

then I remembered why... I live in Los Altos... and Google is across the freeway so yeah, their results for their backyard are pretty good *chuckle*, well that and being able to draw on it by text message is a nice trick that I use all too frequently