For clients seeking to upgrade and enhance their online search more gradually, Planet Discover offers Local Search. Local Search is a cost-effective and efficient way to deliver rich local content from multiple sources - news, news archives, local business listings, local websites, community group and event information - all with a single search input. It delivers these results to your users in an organized result page, supplemented with relevant ads from local businesses. Local Search provides your users with the most robust local results and gives advertisers exposure to a highly targeted local audience.

How does Local Search differ from Integrated Search?
Local Search consists of the same infrastructure as Integrated Search, but uses only select components of the Integrated Search platform. Your Local Search database begins by aggragating traditional forms of local content: news and directory listings. To these our platform adds news archives, enhanced business listings, local website content, community information, and advertisements derived from three sources: your site and partner sites, the Internet, and our Ad System. Like Integrated Search, results are integrated into a highly organized result page that offers users friendly and intuitive access to a wealth of local information.

What about scalability?
Local Search provides clients with the framework on which to continue upgrading and enhancing their online services. While initial search implementation might require only two or three core technologies, Planet Discover builds your Local Search platform in such a manner to accommodate any and all of Integrated Search's core technologies: indexing, structured indexing, data feeds, Results Plug-In, and Ad System. As your site grows and your strategies evolve, additional technology elements can be added with the same dependability and high-level of performance as offered through Integrated Search.

From Local Search to Integrated Search, Planet Discover 's search technology platform provides the flexibility and scalability to meet your needs now and in the future.

Benefits of Local Search:
• Cost effective and efficient way to upgrade site services
• More robust local information for users
• Additional exposure to local audience for advertisers
• Increased traffic and ad revenue for your website
• Strengthened positioning as a source for complete local information
• Framework for future site services and enhancements