Internet media company Yahoo Inc. on Tuesday announced the launch of SmartView, a new local Web search tool, as it continues to battle Google Inc. for dominance in the high-profile search sector.
SmartView helps Yahoo Maps users find such things as restaurants, hotels, hiking trails, movie theaters, stores or automatic teller machines (ATMs) within a certain area.
For example, users looking for Chinese restaurants in downtown San Francisco can type in an area address or intersection and select for Chinese restaurants. The SmartView technology shows the locations of all of the restaurants. When users click on the markers they get the restaurant's name, address and telephone number, as well as links to more information, Web search and driving directions.
(Reuters)