Google offers local search

Hyderabad, Aug. 20: Google India on Monday launched an innovation platform, Google India Labs, and two new products — Google Local Search and Google Local Business Centre — that will cater mainly to the Indian customers "Local Search and Local Business Centre will provide our users with better local business results by increasing the corpus and depth of business listings, and benefit local businesses by ensuring visibility on the Internet for free," said Google India head of products Vinay Goel.
Google Local Search is a tool for Indian users who are looking for locally relevant information on the web. With the launch of this product users will now be able to search for information on local businesses like restaurants, shops, and hotels by doing a search on http://local.google.co.in.
Google Local Business Centre is available at www.google.co.in/local/add and will allow any business to add its information to Google Local for free. When users search on Google Local Search, the listed business information will be displayed. Google Labs is a technology playground for products that are in the process of development and require market feedback to improve.
Launched under the sub-domain labs.google.co.in, this launch makes India one of the few countries to have a country-focused labs programme. Globally, Google has seven labs across US, China, Italy, France, Germany, the Netherlands, and Spain. India labs will serve as a platform to showcase innovations that are particularly relevant to the Indian market and will also allow users to take a peek into Google’s future offerings.