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Tips On Getting Listed In Local Search Results
Patricia Hursh wrote a ClickZ column named Four Steps Every Business Can Take to Improve Local Search Results. The article goes over the what, why and how on…
Farecast Adds Cities To Flight Fare Prediction Tool
GigaOM writes that Farecast, a travel search engine that uses statistical modeling to predict if the prices of tickets will increase or…
Custom Map Icons Added For Google Local Business Ads
The Google Blog announced a new feature for Google Local business ads, named “custom map icons.” Basically, for the pinpoints found in…
Newspapers Getting Into Local Search Game
MediaNews Group, which bought the San Jose Mercury News from McClatchy, becomes the third newspaper group to employ a “guaranteed clicks” geotargeted…
Marchex Building Out Local Search Domains
Today Marchex announced the launch of 100 new local and vertical search domains. These sites have real content, user ratings, dynamic category…
Find ‘Nearby Stores’ With Become
There’s lots of data from many sources that reflects the dominant consumer shopping paradigm involving the Internet: research online, buy locally. Even…
Travelers Aid for Air Warriors
I spend a ton of time flying around the world, and I’ve learned a number of tricks and techniques to make air…
Trulia Distributing Its Maps To Local Realtors
As described on the Trulia Blog and The Future of Real Estate Marketing Blog, vertical real estate search site Trulia is making…
French Court Preventing Greenpeace France From Displaying Crop Data On Google Maps
BoingBoing spotted an interesting case where a French court ordered Greenpeace France to remove a site using the Google Maps tool to…
Real-Time Traffic From Google Maps Mobile
Google Maps has rolled out a new mobile version offering real-time traffic information in 30 US cities. The service also offers directions…
SuperPages Buys Inceptor
As reported in ClickZ today, SuperPages, which is itself up for sale, has acquired SEM firm Inceptor for an undisclosed amount. Verizon…
Windows Live Local Worth Another Look
Windows Live Local debuted with a splash with most attention focused on its spectacular “birds eye” aerial imagery. Since then, Microsoft has…
ShopLocal Taps Topix for Geotargeted Ads
This isn’t search, but it is local. ShopLocal has partnered with news aggregator Topix.net to offer dynamic banner ads that are targeted…
SuperPages Upgrades Maps With Microsoft
I never saw a press release. But today I discovered that SuperPages, which had dynamic mapping almost before anyone else in local…
Google Maps Adds Click To Zoom
Loren Baker at Search Engine Journal points out that Google Maps has added another way to zoom: double clicking. Of course you…
Kayak Launches $10m Ad Campaign – Includes TV
Kayak, the travel search engine, today launched a $10m advertising campaign with a HUGE offline component. The TV commercials are fun, creative,…
Yahoo Trip Planner Released From Beta
Yahoo is taking is community-travel site Trip Planner out of beta. The site has reached a kind of content critical mass and…
Click Packages Draw Local Advertisers Into Search
The Wall Street Journal (subscription required) reports on the “bundle of clicks” search distribution packages that all the major yellow pages publishers…
The Changing Face of Local
This ClickZ article discusses a new JupiterResearch report called “Local Advertising: Blending Categories to Compete Effectively.” The article doesn’t go into great…
SuperPages For Sale
Verizon has formally filed with the SEC to sell its directory unit, which contains the print yellow pages and online yellow pages/local…
Wi-Fi Comes to New York Parks
The New York Times today is reporting on the progress of a project to unwire New York City parks, which was announced…
New Players in Travel Search Threaten to Disrupt Status Quo
Travel search has improved enormously over the past several years, but serious travellers still find themselves checking multiple web sites to make…
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 eager French…
‘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, I am…
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 search engine…
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