Friday, March 17, 2006

Not-So-Local News

This morning, I noticed that Yahoo! News has debuted a beta of a new featured called Local News, wherein you can enter your ZIP code and it will purportedly aggregate local news stories. However, upon entering 12866, I was given the message:

"To see news for Saratoga Springs, NY, please select a metro area: Buffalo, Burlington, New York."

Um, guys? Neither of those cities are within a 100-mile radius of here. Albany would have been acceptable. Heck, even Syracuse is closer.

And, hey, I get the same message when I change the location to "Albany, NY."

So I'm not impressed with Yahoo! Local News.

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