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Yahoo Maps vs. MapQuest
The LA Times Chris Gaither in: Overtaking MapQuest a Challenge for Yahoo, takes a look at what Yahoo is doing to gain market share from MapQuest in the…
Seekport Expands Into UK Market
Seekport, a German company that has been offerering a search engine (using it’s own crawler and index) aimed at users in France…
Say Hello to the Local Search Guide
Media Post reports on the launch of the Local Search Guide at SES in Chicago. The new online local advertising resource will…
Yahoo Offers Content Inclusion for Local Businesses
Yahoo quietly took the wraps off a new program today that provides U.S. based businesses with tools to modify or enhance their…
eSearch For South African Queries
Looking to search for South African web sites? eSearch is a new site you might want to try, that came across my…
Local Search and Yellow Pages
Kevin Ryan’s: Last Local Search Hang-ups, offers an interesting discussion about the this booming part of the search business. Last in the…
New Google Local Sites
Several sites, including Google Blogoscoped, Zorgloob, and IntelligenceCenter.com are reporting that Google Local is now online for several European countries. + Google…
PremierGuide Profile
The Silicon Valley Business Journal offers a profile of local search player PremierGuide in the article: Alchemy: Local ads good as gold.…
Mobissimo Officially Launches
A press release this morning alerting us to the news that travel search engine, Mobissimo has officially launched. We’ve blogged about this…
Yellow Page Companies To Buy YellowPages.com
BellSouth and SBC Communications are to purchase YellowPages.com, which they apparently hope can be built into an online business index for the…
Google-BellSouth Partnership — Not Quite Revolutionary
AdAge examines the new Google-BellSouth deal to explain why the two partnered: Why the Google-BellSouth Yellow Pages Deal Happened. Frankly, there’s nothing…
Local Search Continues to Grow, What About the Yellow Pages?
In the Clickz article: Kelsey: Local, Shopping Search Grow, Kevin Newcomb takes a look at a new study from The Kelsey Group…
Nestorov’s Mobissimo
We’ve blogged about travel search sites and tools like Mobissimo, Kayak, Yahoo FareChase, and SideStep in the past. In the new Business…
Local Search + Social Networking
In the article: Socially Networked Start-Ups Challenge Big Boys in Local Search, Pamela Parker takes a look at three new local search/social…
Local Search With Yelp!
A new “collaborative” local search product backed by one of the co-founders of PayPal called Yelp is now online. It allows you…
New Travel Search: Take a Trip with Kayak
Kayak, a new travel search meta site that I’ve mentioned several times on the SEW Blog, has just launched a beta version.…
Social Networking Meets the Yellow Pages
Stefanie Olsen reports in a CNET article about a new project from Bill Gross, the CEO of Idealab: Idealab chief stakes out…
Yellow Pages Publisher Launches Search Marketing Program
Dex Media Pursues SME Market, Analysts Ponder Relevancy Source: Media Post Dex Media, publisher of print edition Yellow Pages, has designed a…
Travel Search Continues to Heat Up
The travel search and booking sector continues to get attention most recently with the purchase of Orbitz to Cendant. InternetNews.com looks at…
Google Local Canada is Now Online
Yellow Pages dials onto Google Canada Source: Canadian Press Google has just launched another local search product, this time in Canada. The…
Citysearch Joins Toolbar War
CitySearch is entering the toolbar “war” today with a beta release of their entry (IE Only). In addition to being able to…
The Traveler and Search Engines
Search Leads Travelers to Destinations Source: Clickz Search engines play prominently in travel planning, particularly for affluent Internet users. A joint study…
FindWhat Launches Pay-Per-Call Ad Program
FindWhat Launches Online/Offline Performance-Based Ads Source: Clickz >From the article, “As with FindWhat.com’s pay-per-click service, advertisers bid for placement in search results…
Google “Enhances” Local Search
Word from the Googleplex today that they’ve added some new features to Google Local. What’s New? + Enhanced user interface – a…
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