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Yahoo! Local helps you find the things you need in your             neighborhood and beyond. It gives you the names and numbers of local services and businesses but it also shows you information related to them. For instance, you'll get the name and address of your local deli but you can also get the time it opens, whether it accepts VISA, and maybe even how helpful the wait staff is.
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For restaurants, the search engine will offer editorial reviews, prices and atmosphere, as well as an opportunity for users to contribute their own reviews. In an effort to be comprehensive, Yahoo has partnered with a number of companies for its data . Searches also provide results from major cities as well as smaller communities like Knoxville, TN or Destin, Florida.

"Local information is kind of Yahoo's heritage and in our blood," Paul Levine, general manager of Yahoo Local, told Reuters. "When an audience starts to look at local information we see an opportunity to really capitalize on those dollars from a local perspective."

"People will break it in the early going," Levine said. "It's not perfect but we do think it works really well." 

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