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Greg Sterling
2006
‘Point and Search’ Redux
After my most recent post on “point and search” mobile technology, prompted by last week’s NY Times’ article on GeoVector’s…
Google and Yahoo Come to the Aid of Craigslist
As many people already know, Craigslist is being sued under federal housing discrimination law for allowing the posting of allegedly…
‘Point and Search’ on Japanese Cellphones
The NY Times covers “Point and Click” mobile local search in Japan on GPS-enabled mobile phones using technology from American…
France’s Géoportail Mapping Site: La Demande C’est Fantastique!
The French answer to Google Earth, the indirectly government funded Geoportail, launched Friday and was immediately overwhelmed with visits from…
‘Social Directory,’ ‘Directed Blogging’?: Whatever You Call It Yelp Has Got It Down
The odds were against Yelp when it entered the local search/directory market just under two years ago. (As an aside,…
Video Search, Smut and Censorship
Earlier this week, ZDNet News published an article discussing the presence and availability of explicit content on video search sites…
InfoSpace Rebrands, Upgrades Local Search Site
InfoSpace, which also owns and operates the Dogpile metasearch engine, has cleaned up its interface and yesterday rebranded its local…
Zillow Announces ‘Zillow Labs’
Everybody’s going “Web2.0.” Real estate vertical search engine and valuation site Zillow.com has launched Zillow Labs, “a sandbox where developers…
Craigslist Adds Cities, Now 300 Strong
According to an article in the Wall Street Journal (sub. req’d) over the weekend and a Monday posting on PaidContent,…
Canada’s YellowPages.ca Launches New Local Search Site
Since this is Local Search Day at Search Engine Watch, here’s some additional news. Canada’s yellow pages publisher, Yellow Pages…
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