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Travellazer Crawls For Travel Content
Relatively new site Travelazer says it identifies sites as travel-related, then spiders them to provide searches that are focused to travel-related content. The spider identifies pages that seem…
Super Cool: Interact With Satellite and Aerial Images With NASA’s World Wind Program
I thought I would toss out another cool satellite and aerial image tool on our blog since Chris wrote about Google Local…
Searching For WiFi Hotspots
Heading off on that big trip and need to locate the nearest WiFi hot spot? WiFi Search Sites Offer Spring Freedom from…
I Can See Your House From Here: Google Satellite Images In Maps
Google has integrated the satellite imagery it acquired with its Keyhole acquisition into the maps it displays on Google Maps and Google…
Yahoo’s FareChase Releases Hotel Search Beta
A beta released by Yahoo’s FareChase service today allows you to simultaneously search multiple sites for hotel rates in the same manner…
Babelplex Translates Queries For Google
Need to search for something in a language you don’t know, say "digital cameras" in German? Babelplex lets you enter the words…
Local Search: Asking For & Maybe Gaming Reviews
You know local search is maturing when local merchants are ensuring that clients give them positive online reviews. As Local Search Grows,…
New Travel Search Engines Beat Old
Venerable Consumer Reports pits new travel search engines Kayak, Mobissimo and SideStep against the established brands of Orbits, Expedia and Travelocity and…
AOL’s Newest Search Vertical: Pinpoint Travel
AOL has been on a tear over the past six months, significantly upgrading and enhancing AOL Search (including local and desktop flavors)…
Google Local Gains Tools For Businesses
Just launched, the new Google Local Business Center allows US business to find their their listings in Google Local (such as this…
FareChase Announces Enhancements
FareChase, the travel search site that Yahoo acquired in 2004 is announcing a few enhancements to the service. A post on the…
Enhancements Made to Google Local (Beta)
Google is enhancing Google Local today with three new features. Here’s what you’ll find: Google Maps are now available on Google Local…
New Services from MSN Maps
News of a few new services from MSN Maps this afternoon. + An option to paste a formatted address from a web…
Google Maps Takes a Safari and Sings at the Opera
A new item on the Google Blog points out that Google Maps now works with the Apple Safari and Opera web browsers.
What Model For Travel Search?
Will travel search be more like pointing people at individual travel sites where they can book (the Kayak and Sidestep model) or…
Just Map It!
If you’re interested in learning about the companies that provide Google, Yahoo, MSN, Mapquest and many others the data for their digital…
Google Maps Not In Google Search; Comparing Services & How Do They Do That?
Nice catch from Tara, finding in Google Maps Not Integrated into Google Search? that the new Google Maps service launched this week…
Google Local Pulls More Than Froogle
Interesting interview from Fortune, Google: Going Beyond the Web, where Google surprisingly says that its Google Local service was getting more page…
Kayak Travel Site Leaves Beta, Launches Paid Listings
Kayak is a travel search site that went up in beta back in October, as Gary covered more here: New Travel Search:…
A Few Minutes With Google Maps
I’ve just spent a small amount of time “playing” with the new Google Maps service. + The Google Maps themselves look very…
New Google Maps Now Live
Google has released a new Google Maps service via its Google Labs site. Covering the United States, it allows you to drag…
Google Local Moves To Home Page But Stays In Beta
News from Google that its Google Local service has now moved to the home pages of the US-based Google site and Google…
Local Ads Spend Online To Rise; Paid Search Nearly 10 Percent Of It
Local Online Ad Spend to Rise 46 Percent in ’05 from ClickZ summarizes a Borrell Associates report on 210 US media markets…
Testing Travel Search
The Organized Shopping Blog puts some travel search engines to the test in Travel Search Engine Shootout – Las Vegas Strip Hotels.…
NHN Plans to Stop Japanese Web Search Offering
NHN (the Korean search engine/portal) who just launched a desktop search app (see: Leading Korean Search Engine Launches Desktop Search App) is…
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