Hyper-local is the new search goal: What's around me? The enhancement to Google's Local Search for Mobile (U.S. & China only right now) lets you mark important items ("star" it) to mark it for future use.

Introducing the new Local Search for Mobile

Local Search also provides a large set of categories and sub-categories for things around you to let you browse around the local area without typing anything. You can see part of the top level of categories in the screenshot above.

I'm very impressed by what I've seen so far of this Local Search enhancement. It definitely gets a mobile thumbs up of approval (and thanks) from me.

YouTube video courtesy of GoogleMobileBlog