| 摘要 |
Many local, brick-and-mortar businesses are losing out to large, de-localized online suppliers due, for example, to the overhead cost structure enabled by the world wide web. To address this problem, local business listings are provided to users concurrently with real time or near real time updates from those businesses. Users are presented with the identification of such businesses and their latest news, including offers, on a single web page, which eliminates the need for users to perform multiple searches and reduces the reliance of small businesses on strategies such as search engine optimization. A local map may also be displayed concurrently, and users may communicate with the businesses. |
| 主权项 |
1. A processor-implemented method for providing local marketplace information to a user, comprising:
receiving a location from a user via a user computing device; displaying, on the user computing device, a plurality of vertical categories related to the location; receiving, via the user computing device, a vertical category selection from the displayed vertical categories; displaying, on the user computing device, a plurality of sub-categories for the vertical category selection; receiving, via the user computing device, a sub-category selection from the displayed sub-categories; displaying, on the user computing device, a plurality of business listings for the sub-category selection; and displaying, on the user computing device, concurrently with the display of business listings, a plurality of updates from businesses to which the business listings correspond. |
