Local
A Few Minutes With Google Maps
I’ve just spent a small amount of time “playing” with the new Google Maps service. + The Google Maps themselves look very ... read more
New Google Maps Now Live
Google has released a new Google Maps service via its Google Labs site. Covering the United States, it allows you to drag ... read more
Google Local Moves To Home Page But Stays In Beta
News from Google that its Google Local service has now moved to the home pages of the US-based Google site and Google ... read more
Local Ads Spend Online To Rise; Paid Search Nearly 10 Percent Of It
Local Online Ad Spend to Rise 46 Percent in ’05 from ClickZ summarizes a Borrell Associates report on 210 US media markets ... read more
Testing Travel Search
The Organized Shopping Blog puts some travel search engines to the test in Travel Search Engine Shootout – Las Vegas Strip Hotels. ... read more
NHN Plans to Stop Japanese Web Search Offering
NHN (the Korean search engine/portal) who just launched a desktop search app (see: Leading Korean Search Engine Launches Desktop Search App) is ... read more
Yahoo Maps vs. MapQuest
The LA Times Chris Gaither in: Overtaking MapQuest a Challenge for Yahoo, takes a look at what Yahoo is doing to gain ... read more
SideStep Allows Travel Search On Site
Travel search engine SideStep now allows you to perform searches via its web site, rather than having to do that through browser ... read more
One-Stop Travel Search
2004 saw an increasing amount of attention given to travel search tools, particularly those that simultaneously search multiple databases. In fact, Yahoo ... read more
Seekport Expands Into UK Market
Seekport, a German company that has been offerering a search engine (using it’s own crawler and index) aimed at users in France ... read more
