Say you’re in Uptown and you’re looking for pizza. You could search for “pizza in Dallas” but you’re really looking for something more specific. You want the name of the closest good pizza place.
If you know your specific address or the nearest intersection, you can type that into any search engine, but you often don’t know that, particularly when you’re in unfamiliar territory.
So how do you find the closest pizza parlor? Yahoo has devised a pretty clever solution.
Whenever you do a local search on Yahoo, a gray disk now appears over the map. If you want to concentrate your results in any one place, you can adjust the size of the disk and slide it over your target zone.
It takes about a second, and edits out everything but relevant results.
Yahoo’s map blog has all the details about this new search tool.
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