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...
In fact, according to Nielsen Mobile, 411 Directory Assistance was the most popular mobile search format used by mobile users at the end of 2007. Considering these facts, it's easy to see why opportunities such as ad-supported directory assistance...
The Local Search Guide provides information on Internet Yellow Pages, search engines, search tools, vertical directories, and now profiles local mobile tools including voice-based search and free directory assistance providers.
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. So, from a local search standpoint, how do you prepare for the...
The ad is suppressed from directory assistance databases, as well as other advertising sources such as Yellow Pages and White Pages. Telephone tracking can be accomplished by setting up a dedicated call-tracking line, whereby a unique phone number...
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...
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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...
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Because of increasing competition and free alternatives, consumer-pays wireless directory assistance (DA) will eventually go away, unless it becomes incredibly valuable and useful. Voice-Enabled Mobile Search Kill Directory Assistance?
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 Below, a recap of stories posted today to the Search Matters and Mobile People is designed to bring new revenue opportunities to the Yellow Pages industry by combining...
New 411 User Survey Points To Mobile Local Search Demand - A new study looks at how Americans use directory assistance.MORE” Unfortunately, there's no way to browse through a directory of books that are available.
That's where directory assistance is headed anyway: category search with a voice front end. The study also revealed demographic differences in behavior and attitudes toward directory assistance. Directory assistance is a mature, multi-billion...
NetCoalition: Search queries are essentially "directory assistance" requests from users to companies that help them find locations on the Internet. Searches can be directory assistance and much more than that.
There are several use cases (or, if you prefer, "modalities") now developing in the mobile search world: SMS, free ad supported directory assistance, automated voice-driven mobile search, the wireless web and the perhaps more provocative "point...
More on Mobile Search, Free Directory Assistance, and Voice Activated Info Services - Matt Marshall's article: Silicon Valley start-ups rush to bring you information on the go, does a great job of not only reviewing but adding several insights to...
More on Mobile Search, Free Directory Assistance, and Voice Activated Info Services - Matt Marshall's article: Silicon Valley start-ups rush to bring you information on the go, does a great job of not only reviewing but adding several insights to...
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