Is it possible to get local business results through the Google APIs?

Is it e开发者_高级运维asy to get the business listings such as when you search in Google Maps?

If there is an API that would be great! In any language, preferable, PHP or javascript

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You can do local search via the Google AJAX search API.

http://code.google.com/apis/ajaxsearch/documentation/reference.html#_class_GlocalSearch