131
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2004–2006
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Greg Sterling

2006

Industry

Study: Search Driving Offline Conversions for Local Service Businesses

New research suggests that internet users are increasingly relying on search to find local service businesses, potentially taking mind-share away…

07 Dec 2006

Industry

Search Marketing 2006: Facts & Figures

If you're looking for hard data about the world of search engine marketing, arguably the best single source of metrics…

29 Nov 2006

Local

Web Increasingly Used For Local Service Business Searches

Local online marketing firm WebVisible conducted an online survey this past August regarding Internet usage to find a local service…

21 Nov 2006

Local

Verizon Spins Off Idearc

Idearc is the newly spun off parent of local search provider SuperPages.com. The company started trading today on the NYSE.…

20 Nov 2006

Mobile

Sprint Launches Mobile Search Relationship With Microsoft

According to the Wall Street Journal, Sprint has launched mobile (local) search has part of a broad new strategic relationship…

16 Nov 2006

Mobile

Google Expands Mobile Text Ads Beta

Google has expanded its mobile ads beta test beyond the U.S., U.K., Japan and Germany to eight more countries: France,…

15 Nov 2006

Local

Loki And ‘Location Pull’

If you’re not aware of it, Loki is one of the more interesting developments in local search. It’s a downloadable…

15 Nov 2006

Local

New Demographic Heatmaps From HotPads

HotPads is a map-based rental housing search site. The site has launched new heatmaps that contain interesting demographic information showing…

14 Nov 2006

Industry

InfoSpace Launches Kid-Friendly Search Engine Zoo.com

InfoSpace has launched kid-friendly search engine Zoo.com, which provides web and news search. Intentionally there is no image search at…

14 Nov 2006

Analytics

Google, Microsoft And The ‘3-D Web’

When Microsoft launched its Live Local/Virtual Earth 3-D platform earlier this week, the memorable quote from Virtual Earth GM Stephen…

09 Nov 2006

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