February 5th, 2008
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 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:
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By Gilad -- 0 comments
July 2nd, 2007
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 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
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
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