How much do we know about our residential area? Our knowledge about the world around us is usually so limited and tied to certain routine. Before the web and search engine, yellow book, newspapers and local TV stations are the major public sources from which we can learn about the city where we live. Now local search and online map services become important alternative sources, and shows great profit potential (e.g. commercial ads). Following Yahoo and Google, Microsoft now join the competition for attacking people in local search and map services (Microsoft’s news press).

MSN today released a beta version of a new Local Search service, enabling consumers to quickly retrieve local results from business, residential or local Web sites, often accompanied by informative maps and aerial images.

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