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‘Local Shopping’ Competition Intensifying
Several years ago I was in a room with Chuck Davis, then CEO of BizRate (Shopzilla), and pitched him the idea of…
Classifieds A Big Gainer In Local Landscape
comScore is reporting that the classifieds category is gaining very fast with 47 percent annual traffic growth. Classifieds sites, as defined by…
New Look YellowPages.ca Comes Out Of Beta
Canada’s Yellow Pages Group took its new search-driven yellow pages redesign out of beta over the weekend. Here’s what we wrote when…
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…
Google Maps Inline With Search Results
Philipp Lenssen spotted someone who captured Google inserting a plus sign in the search results, when you click on that plus sign,…
Saving Addresses At Google & Yahoo Maps
Matt McGee posted an entry on a fairly new feature at Google Maps, that allows you to save locations for later use.…
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…