On Wednesday, the Web search company will unveil Google Local, which has been tested in the company's research and development lab for the last 8 months.
Type a keyword along with an address or city name into the search box at Google.com or at its newly designated site, Local.google.com, to find maps, locally relevant Web sites and listings frombusinesses in the area.
“A lot of times when people are looking for something, they want to do it on a local level…This is a core search promise,” said Marissa Mayer, Google’s director of consumer Web products, who helped build the service with a team of engineers from Google’s New York office.
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