DMOZ provides a wealth of local and regional resources to users in towns large and small across the US and around the world. In this post, editor crowbar talks about the experience of building out these local categories. Emily - - - - - - - - - - One of the more rewarding tasks of editing in the Regional section of the Directory is to find a small locality (city) with only a few listings,

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It's appropriate that we are at number 28 in our continuing series of profiles on the men and women who put the cowbell in the Blue Oyster Cult song that is Reprise Media . In Chinese numerology, the number 2 maps to ease, and the number 8 maps to sudden good fortune and prosperity.  Which brings us to Jessica Joines, our Director of Biz Dev (as they call it downtown), who is easily providing us with good fortune and prosperity. And dim sum for lunch next week, hopefully.

Aside from the MyLocation feature that was added to its Maps Service, Google is also putting Google Maps somewhere else - on location-based search results . Now when you do a search for a location related searches in Google, the first search result will be a map of that location plus some nice photos of that location. Clicking on those photos or map will bring you to their photo layers on Google Maps where you can find more information about those places,

Here's a new twist on the oft repeated whine of many businesses regarding the use of brand names to trigger online ads. Cosmetics company Mary Kay filed a lawsuit against Yahoo! this week in federal court alleging trademark infringement after they discovered Yahoo was inserting links to unauthorized retailers in personal messages that its sellers send to their consumers.

GeoCities web hosting has been around since the very early days of the internet and while it's not widely used anymore, it's name still arouses a fond memory in the minds of early adopters.  Every once in awhile, a long-dead GeoCities site will even crop up in search results.  Yahoo, the current owner of GeoCities, has decided to finally put the sites and the entire service to rest, announcing that GeoCities will cease to function on October 26, 2009.

Google continues to ratchet up its search engine enhancements this week. This may be business as usual for the search engine giant, but search improvements take on greater importance thanks to the emergence of Microsoft's Bing search engine. To wit, Google today, July 10, added images complement some of the Google Map results it returns. Google has offered maps as part of its Universal Search results for two years,

If you're a Hotmail user, you now have a new feature called Quick Add . The feature allows you to include a variety of goodies to your emails including restaurant reviews, movie times, images, videos, and maps. Quick Add is availalbe to users in Australia, Canada, China, India, US, and the UK. To use the feature, begin a new email message. Then make a selection from the Quick Add, which you can find on the right pane.

Google has updated the universal search results for location-based queries. Now, next to the map included at the top of the search results are images. It doesn't work for all location-based searches, however. A search for Kota, India shows image results but they are further down and no map is included. A search for Nassau, Bahamas returns a map but not images: It's not a problem with international searches altogether because a search for Brasilia,

When Google Product Search for Mobile was launched , it was only for the iPhone and Android phones. Now, it's available for all internet-enabled devices in the US, UK, Germany and South Korea. Additionally, Google Suggest , a query suggestion feature, has been added to Product Search for Mobile, but it is limited to iPhone, Android and Palm Pre phones in the U.S. To use Product Search for Mobile, simply browse to google.com on your mobile phone and conduct a search.