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.