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Recently there has been some activity going on in the Local search space. Hot on the heals of Ask.City´s innovation AOL has now launched the AOL Local Search Beta.

AOL is using Mapquest to power their local search, and refreshes the local options as you move around on the map. Users can also provide comments and results are served quickly. This is a crowded space with competitors like Google Local, Yahoo Local, and Ask City competing with each other. With all of them focusing on different things. Google is trying hard to cover as much of the world as possible, Yahoo is betting on making it as social as it could, Ask wants to win by making it innovatively easy to use. With all this going on i really feel AOL is late to party.

This is another launch within a fortnight from AOL. I feel that instead of doing something radical and innovative AOL just wants to have a me too service in every category that there is to try and not loose their existing user base to the likes of Google and Yahoo.

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