Yahoo! Local-Search Plans Bus Stop Kiosk in Grittiest Part of Times Square

Search Engine Journal reports that Yahoo! Local-Search will be installing its first New York City bus stop kiosk at 8th Ave and 42nd Street next week "in order to test userís responses in one of the densest urban environments in the US."

The area's dense allright! Full of street hustlers, hookers and homeless, mingling with tourists and wage slaves slogging through smarmy Port Authority Bus Terminal. Despite the recent Disneyization of Times Square, 42nd and 8th still is squalid in its heart and seems an unlikely choice for an Internet experiment. I don't know exactly what Yahoo! hopes to find, but the outcome should be fascinating.

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