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Yokel Launches Local Shopping Search Engine
Yokel today announced the beta release of its local shopping search engine. Yokel is run by Scott Randall, former CEO of FairMarket,…
Microsoft Accelerates Mapping
Mapping has already become one of the most competitive arenas online — a visual version of local search. Barry posted earlier about…
Microsoft To Map The World In Real Time?
The TechnologyReview.com has an interesting article explaining a project at Microsoft named SenseWeb, that will strive to enable Windows Live Local to…
Australians Need Maps — Zoom Australia Delivers
Startup Beats Google Maps on its Home Turf from O’Reilly Radar notes that those living in Australia can’t turn to Google Maps…
Microsoft’s Windows Live Local Launches CelebFavorites.com
Microsoft announced the launch of CelebFavorites.com, a site that uses Windows Live Local maps to plot eight famous American stars. Each of…
Beyond Booking Flights & Hotel Rooms
Online travel search does a good job helping you with the major tasks of planning travel—booking flights, hotel rooms, rental cars and…
Ask.com Launches Physical / Topicgraphical Maps Views
Ask.com’s Gary Price posts about Ask.com rolling out a new topographical views on Ask Maps. The feature is called “physical” and it…
Local Traffic Estimation Tool Released By TrueLocal
TrueLocal, a local search engine, announced the release of a local traffic estimator tool. The tool enables TrueLocal advertisers to enter in…
Why Yahoo’s FareChase May Disrupt the Travel Industry
A couple of weeks ago, Yahoo took its FareChase travel service out of beta, added a link to the service on its…
SideStep Launches Activity Search
SideStep today launched Activity Search Beta which offers comprehensive, real time search for local entertainment in categories such as Museums, Sports, Outdoor…