Google has launched a new version of local search for mobile. This version heavily utilizes Google Maps to make organization of results easier on your phone.
The new local search for mobile lets you find business listings on Google Maps while you're on your computer, where you can "star" them. Once you star them, you can easily find your starred listings grouped together from your phone, making it easy to keep the listings you need while you're out, together. This can potentially make errand running a lot easier, as demonstrated in the video below.
This could be incredibly useful for traveling as well. As Google's Mobile Local Search Product Manager Joshua Siegel
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It appears that the real plan for Google Place Pages has been revealed. They certainly would fall into the better user experience category when you think about mobile browsing, which is controversy, in that they can possibly dissuade people from going to actual business websites, but there's no question that they would be useful to users in scenarios like this.google.com/m/local or click the local tab on
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