Google improves mobile local search

Rating: sounds like a universal local search box

I hate writing about things I havent’ tested. But with a sick laptop a broken hard drive and the loss of my WAP simulator - I am unable to test this search service from the office in Germany.

But apparently Google has re-desiged mobile local search by killing the vertical listing of queries and replacing it with one box with a number of categorized results.

More when I test it.

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