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Accessing Flight Info on the Web
Since we first blogged about Google offering direct links to online travel databases (Expedia, Travelocity, Orbitz) a few days ago if city pairs are placed in the web search…
China Says No To Wikipedia, Dislikes Taiwan Change On Google Maps & Chinese Activist Takes Yahoo’s Yang To Task For Helping Maintain “Evil System”
Wikipedia is apparently no longer accessible to those in Shanghai and other parts of China, reports say, while Boing Boing reports a…
Local Search and Online Reservation Services: A Winning Combination?
Netimperative has an article about a new service from the popular UK directory 192.com (they also offer aerial photos) that now offers…
A New Service Named HomePages Combines Real Estate Listings, Local Data, and Aerial Imagery
Danny’s post from earlier today about Google possibly offering real estate listings that incorporate Google Maps in addition to his mentions of…
Google Looking To Do Real Estate Listings On Google Maps?
Good Morning Silicon Valley points to Google Earth digs deeper at the San Jose Mercury News which covers Google talking with CoStar,…
Travel Databases for Europe: Lots of Trains and Some Planes
A few friends who are considering doing some serious train travel throughout Europe (many countries, several stops, whole thing) and they asked…
Mashing Up Google Maps with Wikipedia Articles
Google Maps, now integrated with Google Local, offers a lot of information about local merchants, but these detailed results typically don’t include…
Google Maps & Maps API Draw From Different Data
Google Maps and Their Data Providers over at O’Reilly Radar looks at how for Google Maps, data comes from NAVTEQ while the…
Google Says Taiwan is Now Taiwan Not Taiwan, Province of China
Via Inside Google word in a San Jose Mercury Story that Google is labelling Taiwan as Taiwan on Google Maps and no…
Google Says Taiwan Label Fits International Naming Conventions But Will Review
Google Blogoscoped points to an update on the Google Maps/Taiwan issue I wrote about earlier. From Google defends map service listing at…
Sharing MSN Virtual Earth Maps with MSN Messenger
Here’s something I’ll be trying this weekend. Yesterday, Via Virtual Earth announced a new and very cool service that allows MSN Virtual…
Google Merges Maps & Local, Brings North America Out of Beta
Google Local and Maps are now a single unified service, known as Google Local. “Google maps has always integrated local listings, and…
Taiwan Not Happy With Being A Chinese “Province” In Google Maps
Via SEO Book, Taiwan tells Google it is not a China province from Reuters has Taiwan asking Google to stop calling it…
Local Matters Goes After Local Search Tech Market
The eWeek article, MapQuest Founder Chases Local Search Crown, offers a look at a new local search technology player, Local Matters, and…
Yahoo Maps Japan Begins Adding User Info
Yahoo begins updating online map based on user tips, from Japan Today, reports that Yahoo Maps Japan has begun allowing users to…
Mobile Access + Local Search + GPS
A new article from News.com: Tech turns phones into back-seat drivers, reports on a presentation at Demofall today of the Destinator Anywhere…
More Travel Search Resources
A sightseer’s best sites: Answers to your travel questions on the Web from the San Jose Mercury News is a very nice…
MSN’s Katrina Flyover Offers Many Before-And-After Views Of New Orleans
Katrina Flyover is a new MSN Virtual Earth-powered service that lets you click on camera icons scatted throughout New Orleans to get…
Dig A Hole Through Earth Via Google Maps
Awesome! The next time one of my kids asks what would happen if they dug down through the earth — at least…
Yandex Big In Russia, Google Gaining
The new Multilingual Search blog has a short brief on Russian search engine Yandex, apparently the most popular in the country. But…
Travel Search Engines Bump Hotels From Top Search Listings
A study out from SEM technology firm SEMphonic finds that travel sites like Expedia, Orbitz and Hotels.com push out actual hotel sites…
Google Launches Google Local In China
I’ve been meaning to mention long-time search marketer Shakil Khan’s new blog on life in China, Chinawhite, where he’s going to be…
Hurricane Katrina Resources & Aerial Images
Trying to understand visually more of what happened in the terrible wake of Hurricane Katrina? Over at ResourceShelf (one of Gary’s other…
Execs from SideStep and PriceRunner Interviewed
After taking a week to relax, Brian Smith at ComparisonEngines.com is back posting interviews with leaders from comparison shopping services. This week,…
MSN Virtual Earth: The Video
The folks at MSN Virtual Earth have publicly released this very funny video clip that has the MSN Butterfly (as portrayed by…
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