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Yahoo! Launches Local News

Posted by ryuzaki0 on from the where-you-are dept.

prostoalex writes "Yahoo! News front page added local news today. Available for logged-in users right on the front page, local news are also delivered at location-specific URLs." There are a few words on the new feature at Search Engine Journal.

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  1. Not all that local... by lisany · · Score: 5, Informative

    ...for those of us not in North America.

    1. Re:Not all that local... by takeya · · Score: 4, Interesting

      I believe Google News was only North America at first.

      It takes time to localize it for the whole world.

  2. Yahoo! and location awareness by Lord+Satri · · Score: 5, Interesting

    This confirms Yahoo! want to be a serious provider of Location-awareness tools, such as Google and Microsoft are.

    Spatially enabled Yahoo! tools now includes:
    - This Local News announcement
    - Yahoo! Maps, including APIs (more reading).
    - Flickr (/. story about the acquisition) maps (undoubtly a similar service will soon be provided by Yahoo!)
    - Probably other I forgot?

    I doubt Yahoo! will join the Virtual Globes frenzy. With Google Earth, Windows Live, NASA WorldWind (and Punt), the competition is already fierce.

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    Animoog.org
  3. Re:No news is no news by fm6 · · Score: 3, Interesting
    RTFP dude. This service is available to signed-in users. Who have voluntarily given up their zip codes. No reverse DNS required. Anyway, if you consider somebody figuring out from reverse DNS where you live an invasion of privacy, you shouldn't access any web site.

    But that's just bullshit. There are many reasons to worry about your privacy. The fact that web sites know the zip code you live in is just not one of them. So what if they know that you're an overprivileged type from 90210 or a blue-collar hispanic from 95112? Hardly a first step to finding all about you.

    Incidentally, 95112 happens to be my zip code, and the databases actually do have this area classified as bch. Not that this classification actually describes me....