Librarian in Black Blog – Sarah Houghton

AOL’s Local Search, available to both AOL customers and regular web users, is up and running.  Over 13,000 million businesses, theaters, and other local establishment are included.  Gary Price has a good review of all its features and content over at the SearchEngineWatch blog.  I find the interface to be clean, though it’s a little confusing that you have to first "set your location" before you can run any searches.  The content is also fairly sparse, as Gary points out.  I did a search for "ice cream" near my home, and while they picked up 3 of the places nearby, but missed about a half-dozen others.  (I am very familiar with ice cream establishments).