For AI & Developers

Local Information for Machines.

The Local Internet Index is designed to be readable by people, search engines and AI agents. The interfaces below are planned infrastructure, not live endpoints.

These APIs do not exist yet. Everything on this page describes planned infrastructure for the Local Internet Index.

Planned surfaces

Search APIs

Query the normalized index by term, category, geography and node.

Planned

Business Record APIs

Read and update authoritative structured business records.

Planned

Structured data

Schema.org output for listings, entities and locations.

Planned

Entity endpoints

Stable identifiers for a business across every node it appears on.

Planned

Knowledge graph relationships

Entity-to-place, entity-to-category and entity-to-node edges.

Planned

AI-readable citations

Machine-consumable source attribution for generated answers.

Planned

Agent interfaces

Tool-style endpoints for autonomous local task completion.

Planned

Conceptual request

GET /v1/search
  ?q=plumber
  &location=duluth-mn
  &category=home-services
  &dedupe=entity

Conceptual response

{
  "query": { "q": "plumber", "location": "duluth-mn" },
  "total": 2,
  "results": [
    {
      "entity_id": "lake-superior-plumbing-co-duluth",
      "name": "Lake Superior Plumbing Co.",
      "trade": "Plumbing",
      "city": "Duluth",
      "state": "MN",
      "zip": "55802",
      "verified": true,
      "featured": true,
      "rating": 4.8,
      "sources": [
        "Localzz.com",
        "Servicezz.com",
        "HomeServicezz.com",
        "LocalFeatured.com",
        "NorthlandFeatured.com"
      ]
    }
  ]
}

Index pipeline

From marketplace listings to machine-readable answers.

01
Marketplace Listings
02
Data Ingestion
03
Normalization / Deduplication
04
Business Records / Entities
05
Local Internet Index
06
Search API
07
LocalInternetSearch.com
08
AI / Agents / Local Internet Sites