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Citysearch to Acquire Insider Pages
IAC/InterActiveCorp, parent to Ask.com and Citysearch, announced plans to acquire reviews-based local search provider Insider Pages. IAC is not sharing the details, but TechCrunch puts the purchase price…
Skype’s One-Two Punch
Skype is on a roll this week. First its Joost online video site signed a deal with Viacom to fill the massive…
Local Search Partnerships of the Day
Today saw a few notable partnership announcements in the local search space. More specifically in local online classifieds and in mobile local…
Local Search Gets its Mojo Working
Lately, there has been a clear trend towards more ratings and reviews in online Yellow Pages. Though letting users write reviews can…
A Step Forward For Mobile Local Search
One thing that has stood in the way of mobile local search adoption is the lack of a clear and compelling value…
Online Video Gets Local
ClickZ’s Kate Kaye wrote an interesting article yesterday on the revenue that is flowing into local video ads on newspaper websites. Interestingly,…
HotFrog Brings Web 2.0. to U.K. Business Lookups
The curiously named Australian online directory HotFrog launched today in the UK. Like its Austrailian forbearer, the site brings the buzzcloud concept…
Krillion Joins the Online Shopping Space
The local online shopping space is quickly crowding up. Given the vast majority of online product research that ends in offline purchases…
Graywolf Owns Local Search This Week
Michael Gray, aka Graywolf, is out to corner the market on local search content this week. He’s posted the first four of…
A New Local Search Product From Yahoo!
Om Malik over at GigaOm has discovered that Yahoo is testing a new local search product in Bangalore and New Delhi. Known…
SuperPages.com Combines Local Search with Social Networking
SuperPages.com today launched a Reviewer of the Week program. The intent of this program is to add the trust garnered from social…
Live From NAA: Local SearchTakes Center Stage
I’m at the Newspaper Association of America Marketing Convention in Las Vegas this week. The general chatter in and around the conference…
The Blogosphere Sounds Off on Hyper-Local
In the wake of discouraging news from hyper-local destination Backfence.com (in some ways this served as a testimonial to the sustainability of…
Social Features Key to Yahoo Local
Yahoo has recently been putting more of an emphasis on social media and user-generated content in its local search product.
MapQuest API For All
MapQuest completed a one-two punch today with its second product launch in 5 days (last week’s mobile announcement was covered here and…
Backfence Faces Setback
Hyperlocal destination site Backfence has lost its CEO and co-founder Susan DeFife due to a failure to see eye-to-eye with the board…
MapQuest Enhances Mobile Mapping Products
MapQuest announced a series of mobile mapping and search enhancements today, meant to leverage the company’s leading position in online mapping. The…
Vertical Strategies in Local Search
Just before the holiday weekend, Bill Slawski had an interesting post at his SEO by the Sea blog. The qualities of online…
Google Maps Offers Speech-Friendly Alternatives
Over at the Google blog, Googler T.V. Raman shares useful tips as a technologist who is visually impaired. For blind searchers and…
Bringing Small Businesses Online
TheStreet.com has an article on the growing trend of small businesses advertising themselves on Craigslist. As opposed to individuals buying and selling…
‘Tis the Season for Top Ten Lists
UK-based local search engine 192.com has released a list of its top local searches for the holiday season. Some search term top…
Jake Baillie Leaving TrueLocal
I just received the email about Jake Baillie leaving TrueLocal for a boutique venture capital company. Guess we are going to need…
New Release of Virtual Earth Launched
The Windows Live Local blog reports on a new build of Virtual Earth. This version has features that will especially appeal to…
Local Service Business Searches on the Rise
Local online marketing firm WebVisible conducted an online survey recently and found that 70% had used the Internet to search for a…
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 business. The…
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