Mobile/Directory Assistance: The free directory assistance area has grown rapidly since I wrote about it in "Voice Search: Mobile Tactic Here. Local Listing Management: Google Maps, Yahoo Local, and thousands of other sites utilize local directory...
Considering these facts, it's easy to see why opportunities such as ad-supported directory assistance are being dubbed as the "Killer Mobile App. In fact, according to Nielsen Mobile, 411 Directory Assistance was the most popular mobile search...
Yet, a very old offering is hot once again: directory assistance (DA). Wireless carriers have been making a handsome profit delivering directory assistance searches to mobile consumers. To serve this rapidly growing marketplace, a number of...
The service, currently available in the Denver, Phoenix, Spokane and Tucson markets, provides free directory assistance (free DA) and local category search for consumers seeking businesses. Donnelley teamed up with Toronto-based Call Genie to power...
Operator services (The most common being voice assistance such as "411" directory listings. We're looking more at very specific mobile type content and a lot of these are in private databases, so looking at specific directory type information and...
He breaks down the tools into several parts including "Technical Data," "Ownership/Hosting Data," "Statistics/Popularity Data," "Search Engine Indexing Data," "Link Data," "Social Tagging Data," "Third-Party Trust Metrics," "Important Directory...
Local media research firm The Kelsey Group just forecast "portal-backed wireless voice search [will] reach 1.45 billion queries in 2010" and cause "a significant disruption of the directory assistance market.
Local media research firm The Kelsey Group just forecast "portal-backed wireless voice search [will] reach 1.45 billion queries in 2010" and cause "a significant disruption of the directory assistance market.
Directory, directory assistance and local search infrastructure provider Local IAC, said he can see Ask.com gaining market share, about 8 to 10 percent share. Hitwise just released August 2006 market share data for the most popular online video...
More on Mobile Search, Free Directory Assistance, and Voice Activated Info Services. Piper Jaffray: Online Ad Market To Surge More Than 30%. Image search has been gaining popularity among web searchers.
Search engines were, however, not rated better by a majority in comparison with the following: Internet Yellow Pages, online vertical directories or telephone directory assistance. There are lots of dollars at stake in the local market.
The service still remains a recognizable search brand today because of the great assistance is added in finding things. Of course, Yahoo has always had its own directory of adult web sites. Despite the ban on banner ads sales, it always continued...
The brainchild of Eric Ward, publisher of URLwire and a noted web marketing consultant, the About.com Closed Guide Directory and Assistance Links page isn't intended to compete with About, nor will it actually host displaced sites.
Search Assistance Features http://searchenginewatch.com/facts/assistance.html Inktomi has also introduced index blending into its search results, which means that you may get information from the LookSmart directory, the paid inclusion index or the...
For instance, Inktomi estimates that it gets seven times more quality content via its paid Search/Submit program than through the free Add URL pages its partners offer -- and paid content is twice as good as content it finds by crawling the web...
Search Assistance Features http://searchenginewatch.com/facts/assistance.html More information and assistance about the program can be found here. It's search and directory, going forward. By the way, the new approach of a directory doing deep...
More information and assistance about the program can be found here. In terms of search, the layoffs had the most impact on Excite's directory listings, rather than its web wide crawling. Though Excite has taken LookSmart's directory feed since...
More information and assistance about the program can be found here. In terms of search, the layoffs had the most impact on Excite's directory listings, rather than its web wide crawling. Though Excite has taken LookSmart's directory feed since...
Pick up that magical device called a telephone, call directory assistance and get the company's phone number -- then ask them for their web address. To improve the odds of a free listing, a site should be listed in the Go Guides directory, Go says.
Other searches and assistance can also be found on the Precision Search home page. Directory of free "web apps" or programs that run within your browser, such as calculators or games. The freshness of the Open Directory information should improve...
