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February 5th, 2008

Mobile Search is the Next Frontier

One of the most promising, untapped market I believe is mobile search. I don’t have exact figures at hand but I strongly believe that there are a lot more people who have mobile phones compared to the number of people with PCs.
At times, I myself am nowhere near a computer but I wanted […]

By Noel -- 2 comments

August 23rd, 2007

ASK Adds Ticking Clock

ASK added a ticking clock with local time to all local search results. It’s been a while since I last used ASK for local search and it appears as if they added weather, clock, pictures and all kinds of useful stuff…
For example, a search for Las Vegas, NV shows:

Tags: Local-Search

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By Gilad -- 0 comments

July 2nd, 2007

Yahoo Introduces SmartAds

Yahoo introduced today a new ads platform called SmartAds aimed at presenting better, more targeted ads to targeted audiences. According to Yahoo, ads will be triggered based both one the term itself and the users localized criteria in Yahoo Weather.
“If a user is browsing for hybrid cars in Yahoo! Autos and has selected San Francisco […]

By Gilad -- 0 comments

June 29th, 2007

Marchex Launches 100,000 Local Search Sites

Marchex launched yesterday 100,000 local and vertical search sites with over one billion pages. These sites feature more than 15 million business listings across all major yellow pages categories, a deep refinement system, user-generated reviews and ratings, and third-party expert reviews.
These sites such as 90210.com, videocameras.com and newyorkdoctors.com seem to all be a good scraping […]

By Gilad -- 0 comments

March 13th, 2007

Google Local Business Center Adds Personal Touch

In an attempt to personalize search results in their Local engine, Google now allows business owners to upload as much as 10 photos of their business along with their registration. These images can be pictures of the premises, photos of the team, your company logo, even products (for example: Hotels Honolulu, Steakhouses Boston).
I must add […]

By Gilad -- 0 comments