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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. The SuperPages brand, which survives the spin-off, will…
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 such data…
Windows Live Local Gets “Virtual Earth” 3-D Cities
Tomorrow Microsoft will bring dramatic 3-D mapping to the browser window. Windows Live is set to launch photorealistic 3-D imagery for the…
SideStep Buys TravelPost
SideStep acquired TravelPost for a combination of cash and stock. TravelPost will become a wholly owned subsidiary of SideStep. According to the…
Face Found On Google Maps
Philipp Lenssen spotted on Digg a link to Google Maps that shows a face outline in the earth. The coordinated for the…
Google Maps Adds “More Info” Link & Expand/Collapse Result
Philipp Lenssen reports that Google Maps has added a “more info” link on the Google Maps results. If you do a search…
President George Bush Uses Google Maps To Get Away
Justin Uberti of Google linked to a Think Progress video where President George Bush said he uses Google Maps. The transcript reads:…
Grayboxx: A Better Local Search Engine?
I hear lots of claims from startups about how they’ll improve upon or do better than the competition. Most of the time,…
Verizon Announces SuperPages Spin Off, To Be Called “Idearc”
Ending several months of speculation Verizon announced yesterday that its SuperPages unit would be spun off as a separate company, to be…
Google And Palm Launch Maps For Smartphones
I’ll resist the “maps in the palm of your hand” jokes here. But Google and Palm announced the launch of Google Maps…
Cool New Real Estate Tools
The real estate vertical is one of the most interesting online segments for several reasons. Among them are the tools that have…
Will 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…
Yahoo Travel Upgrades Maps, Adds More Features
Earlier this week Yahoo upgraded its Travel Guides with more dynamic mapping (including satellite and hybrid maps), more community features and the…
comScore: Local Search Gains Momentum
SES Local starts today in Denver, so it’s timely that comScore released new local search data, which they’ll be presenting at the…
OneSky Jets Travel Search Engine For Private Jet Flights
Can’t afford your own private jet, like the 767 the Google cofounders own, but like the idea of flying privately? OneSky is…
Real Estate Search Engine Trulia Adds New Depth, Features
As the housing market cools, the real estate vertical is heating up. Today, real estate search engine Trulia launched several new features,…
SideStep Launches Syndication Platform, Partners with Forbes.com
SideStep today launched its syndication platform, “a simple and easily customizable platform that provides a consistent user experience between SideStep.com and partners…
Zillow Adds ‘Owner-Generated’ Content
Real estate search site Zillow.com has added personalization features and the ability for homeowners to publish their own information beside Zillows home-valuation…
Citysearch Launches in San Diego
Venerable local search provider Citysearch has launched a new site in San Diego, California. Recently, Citysearch has added “insider lists” (users’ local…
Local Matters and Mobile People Partner for Mobile Local Search
Directory, directory assistance and local search infrastructure provider Local Matters today announced a deal with European mobile search company Mobile People. According…
RH Donnelley Buys LocalLaunch
The press release has yet to come out but it’s official that RH Donnelley, the third largest US yellow pages publisher, has…
Borrell Bullish On Local Search Revenue Outlook
According to an article in today’s MediaPost, Borrell Associates’ newest local forecast is quite upbeat about geotargeted ad growth across categories, but…
‘Local Shopping’ Competition Intensifying
Several years ago I was in a room with Chuck Davis, then CEO of BizRate (Shopzilla), and pitched him the idea of…
Classifieds A Big Gainer In Local Landscape
comScore is reporting that the classifieds category is gaining very fast with 47 percent annual traffic growth. Classifieds sites, as defined by…
New Look YellowPages.ca Comes Out Of Beta
Canada’s Yellow Pages Group took its new search-driven yellow pages redesign out of beta over the weekend. Here’s what we wrote when…
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