A method and system for allowing a regional service merchant that is outside
of
a given geographical boundary, but services inside the geographical boundary, to
be included in a result set of a search directed to a location inside the geographical
boundary. Text and/or glyphs are returned along with the regional service merchant's
business listing so as to explain to a user why a business not physically residing
in the search area has been included in the result set. An application programming
interface ensures that, if a business is listed as a regional service merchant,
then the text and/or glyph is stored in association with the business listing.