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Logos On Rooftops Probably Not Aimed At Google Maps
Boing Boing points to Advertising with Google Maps, which suggest that merchants like Target and others are tapping into satellite views on Google Maps and Windows Live Local…
Google Tests New Local Ads On Maps
Google Tests Local Ads on Maps at ClickZ covers David Galbraith spotting that Google now appears to be inserting paid ads into…
National Stereotypes, Search Activity, Package Tracking & More All Mapped
Thanks to Philipp Lenssen and Nacho Hernandez for alerting us to few new uses of Google Maps and other mapped info. Track…
Google Maps in 3D and Another Source for Interactive 3D Maps, Maps24.com
Via GB, a note about a demo from Japan that offers 3D views of Google Maps. Unfortunately, I had issues with it…
bblocal and Other City Guides, Travel Resource, & Local Info Tools for Mobile Users
I just learned about a new mobile service with info about various cities and maps bbLocal for Blackberry devices. Since I’m a…
Search U.S. Business Listings in Spanish and Chinese; French, Japanese, and German Coming Soon
A DMNews.com story: Site Offers U.S. Business Search in Foreign Languages, takes a look at a new service named Tyloon.com (beta), that…
New OSX Dashboard Widget for MSN Virtual Earth; Yahoo Maps Gets a Widget
It goes without saying that 2005 was the year of online maps and online aerial/satellite imagery. Here are a couple of new…
Saturday Night Live Skit Mentions MapQuest, Yahoo Maps and Google Maps
The final edition of Saturday Night Live of 2005 about 10 days ago included a hilarious “digital video short” by cast members…
Consumer Reports Looks at Travel Search Meta Engines in New Study
Consumer Reports/Consumer Web Watch has published a new study that looks at how 11 travel search meta engines and aggregators like Kayak,…
UK: Thomson Directories and Skype Announce Partnership
How about a large local directory provider and a large VoIP service partnering and tossing in a bit of the click to…
Local Search from Promising Upstarts
Local search is emerging as an important vertical service for Google, Yahoo and the other major players. But local search is still…
On Craigslist, Job Loses at Mainstream News Orgamizations, and Citizen Journalism
The San Franscisco Weekly reports in the article Craig$list.com, that the very popular classified ad site, its founder calls it an online…
“Hypermaps” of Boston From StrataVarious Using Google, MSN, and Yahoo Maps
The StrataVarious HyperMap Atlas comes from Boston based StrataVarious and are available in three mashup flavors: Google Maps, MSN Virtual Earth, and…
Mobissimo Launches One-Box Air Fare Search
Now doubt that travel search is one of the hottest vertical search markets out there. Today, Mobissimo, a travel meta search site…
MapQuest Versus The Mapping Upstarts
Competitors Nip at MapQuest’s Biz from the Associated Press looks at how mapping leader MapQuest, owned by AOL, is being threatened by…
Blog On French Search Industry
Via Xooglers, former Googler Franck Poisson is running a French-language blog that covers the search industry, obviously of interest to anyone watching…
Travel Searchers Still Hitting General Search Engines
Partnerships are key to online travel search survival from Reuters covers some stats and developments with travel search. Only 6.5 percent of…
The Google Maps API Gets Its Own Blog
Via GB and dirson, word of yet another blog from Google devoted to a specific Google tool or service. This time it’s…
Mashups a Go-Go! New Mashups from MSN Virtual Earth and Yahoo Maps
It’s good to see more map mashups coming from developers working with both MSN Virtual Earth and Yahoo Maps. Here’s a look…
Travel Search Player SideStep and Amazon.com Announce Partnership
Over at Clickz, Pam Parker reports on a new partnership between Amazon.com and travel search aggregator, SideStep in the article: Amazon, SideStep…
Warning! The World In Google Maps May Be Bigger Than You Think
Just because I’m feeling kind of punchy, does anyone else think it’s odd that you can convince Google Maps that the world…
Getting the Airfare Buzz from Kayak.com
Kayak Buzz from travel search engine/aggregator Kayak allows the searcher to see what are the “‘best fares'” to the most searched destinations…
Yahoo Maps Adds New Features and Tools
Yahoo has upgraded its Maps service, integrating local search results and adding a lot of cool “wow” factors to the service. They’ve…
MapStats Wins MS Virtual Earth Contest
I was just was reading the Via Virtual Earth site and noticed that a winner has been announced in Microsoft’s Virtual Earth…
UK: Thomson Directories Now Powering Local Search Results On Tiscali UK
A quick note from the UK search scene. Netimperative reports that Thomson Local listings are now being used for local searches on…
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