‘New’ Local Search from AOL
It’s been a long time since AOL has done anything in local search. All its team members left (Jim Riesenbach and Mark Canon went to Autobytel and Gerry Campbell went to Reuters, among other departures).
The “new” (beta) AOL local search is MapQuest + AOL City Guide content and ratings. It’s a simple and nice looking site.
We will NOT be intergrating AOL Local into our 2020 IYP service YET (at least in the short term, as this is a beta service that hasn’t been fully launched to the public yet. We will wait for more meaningful traffic data from AOL to see if it is feasible and beneficial for our customers)