Local search? (Score 0)

Will this include any attempt at local search? This seems the weakest area in search right now to me. From what I can tell the information gets online from the old paper directories getting scanned and put in databases, but in a very imperfect way (okay, I briefly worked on this once). It's a hard problem to take all the blocks of text and pull out the relevent fields in a way that works across all the different formats of directory listings and ads as they appeared in paper yellowpages, etc. Always seemed to me the wrong way to go about it. Instead a wikipedia type setup with the proprieters of the businesses perhaps given special weight on confirming the accuracy of their own information, but also with freedom from corporate control on information such as reviews, etc. Perhaps with the current scanned in information as a starting point (but are their copyright problems with this info?) Maybe this has already been done somewhere but hasn't gotten critical mass?