Last week Yahoo introduced their oneSearch mobile search experience for the majority of cell phones which offer Internet access. This week, Yahoo is working to fortify its innovative hold on the mobile search market with a suite of services which enable publishers to increase the discovery, distribution and monetization of their content via oneSearch; Yahoo …
One reason I use Yahoo Maps is its ability to send directions to the mobile phone via text messaging, a feature which I along with many others, would like to see Google Maps install. MapQuest has taken the Maps2Phone service one step ahead with its new “Send to Cell” service that lets users create detailed …
Yahoo! today announced that it has expanded the reach of its Yahoo! oneSearch service beyond Yahoo Go users and to all US mobile web users. Formerly part of the Yahoo Go interface, now almost any mobile web user (compatible more than 85 percent of mobile phones through the mobile web) can log into Yahoo oneSearch …
Local.com and Idearc Media Corp. today announced a distribution agreement that allows Idearc to place its Superpages.com advertisers’ content on Local.com. Superpages.com’s advertisers will receive priority placement in the “Featured Sponsors” section of the Local.com Web site. So, if your business advertises via SuperPages.com, your ads will also appear on Local.com. Local.com recently also completed …
Loren’s post and Matt Cutts comment about sites being de-listed from Google because of down-time and also some discussions about problems with site moves from one domain to another and launches of big sites with a lot of pages plus the comments and recommendations from Search Engine representatives like Vanessa Fox from the Google Webmaster Central …
There’s something of a dance going on between the new AskCity, which got huge amounts of coverage since launch a week or so ago, and IAC’s stalwart local brand Citysearch. Here’s a press release out this morning, which points to the fact that Citysearch is supplying much of the content on Ask City. It’s a …
Local.com has debuted a new online gift guide to make it easier for consumers to shop for holiday gifts in their area via Local.com, here’s some info from their press release: Online shoppers can access leading retailers through Local.com’s Holiday Shopping Guide at www.local.com/shopping.aspx. Local.com provides information from premier retailers like Target, Toys-R-Us, Macy’s, Buy.com, …
Tomorrow TrueLocal, the local search engine, will be launching their XML services which will allow publishers to syndicate TrueLocal search results to their sites, blogs, or local news publications. TrueLocal says that by using their “ground to web” patent pending search technology, TrueLocal.com is able to find brick and mortar businesses in local communities and …
Bill Slawski has an extensive post about a new Google patent application pertaining to local, which factors in other information in determining location ranking vs. the “centroid” point of a geographic area. (See my Urban Mapping post re the “centroid problem.”) Bill unpacks the Google patent application: The patent describes how it might associate a …
Today Ask.com has launched its highly anticipated new local search & mapping offering, AskCity. Considered in part to be a replacement for CitySearch, but much more now that it is also the local arm of Ask.com, AskCity. Using a ‘one click’ technology merged with Java and Ajax, AskCity keeps the user inside one browser window …
