Microsoft created elements of its own local search engine and community, MSN Local, starting in the mid 1990′s. Today, they’ve merged the service and its elements with Windows Live Search (http://maps.live.com/) and MSN City Guides (http://cityguides.msn.com,) both useful resources for people who want information about local businesses, events, and other information such as traffic, weather [...]
On the Internet, information is world-wide, in fact the Internet’s draw is that it connects people to remotely stored information and to other far away people. But world-wide and far away isn’t always best. That’s why many search engines like Google, Yahoo and MSN created local search engines – fill in the gaps between here [...]