AskLaila - Local search in Internet made-easy!

Today, we need more answers, faster. More importantly, we need them to be more relevant.

Enter, the Internet. Which helps. But does it do all it can?

Suppose you want to have the information about where to get the best Chinese food in town. Googling would give you thousands of results, most of which may not be the nearest to you, or the worst, be irrelevant.

Or, suppose you've got transferred to Bandra in Mumbai very recently, and you want to go to a hair-saloon, but you don't know the number of the nearest saloon...even you don't know how expensive it would be. What would you do??

Enter Ask Laila! They have the addresses and numbers of each and every shop/establishment in your local area, they manually enter those information in their database in case of the absence of any website of the shops, and they are continually evolving...

For mobile-crazy folks, they have lunched AskLaila even for mobile. Just compose your query (say, "movie theater", or "Nehru Museum"), and send the sms to 58989. You will get an sms back with the result in some time and then use it to get the landmark or phone number or even the address of your search (this service is available on Vodafone, Reliance).

What else, if you have a mobile phone with wifi or gprs connection then you can hit m.asklaila.com to access the WAP site.

You can get a glimpse of the service using a demo here.

How to search effectively in the Internet

So, you're still getting those 1,670,000+ responses to your search queries on the Web, and you're still too busy to do anything about it, like reading the lengthy, and sometimes confusing, "help" screens to find out how to improve your searching techniques.
Look no further! Real help is here, links from various world-famous Universities like Berkeley...

Finding Information on the Internet: A Tutorial
BARE BONES 101: A Web Search Tutorial
Web Search Tutorial by Pandia
Web Search from About.com
Search Watch
Search Showdown
Best Search Tools Chart
Graduated Search Strategy
How to Choose where to Search
Tips for Effective Internet Searching
Evaluating Web Resources