Local Search

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• Layar 3.0 Puts 3-D Objects in Your Augmented Reality [Downloads]

  
  Lifehacker — Authority: 813
  iPhone/Android: Layar, the mobile app that overlays data markers over what your phone camera sees, hit its 3.0 release in a big way. The new release features 3-D objects, multiple layers at once, and guided tours, among other improvements. The big improvement, technology-wise, is the introduction of 3-D objects, ...
  2 hours ago

• Google Maps for Mobile syncing starred maps

  
  Search Engine News — Authority: 151
  Before Wednesday, you could star a map as a favorite on Google Maps online, and you could star one on Google Maps for Mobile, but you could never connect the two. A small but significant update that Google added to Google Maps for Mobile 3.3 now syncs your starred locations between the map app on your Symbian and ...
  5 hours ago

• Google Adds Geographic Information to Some Search Results

  
  Search Engine News — Authority: 151
  Google is making it easier to identify where some sites exist geographically. Normally, you can tell this information from the URL, such as .ca for Canada or .br for Brazil. But when it comes to TLDs such as .com and .net, it’s not always clear. Google is adding country-specific information to the green URL line in ...
  5 hours ago

• Find and Schedule Appointments With Service Provider Through HourVille.com

  
  Tech Blog of Global and Indian Companies: Gajeebo — Authority: 480
  HourVille is a social market place for finding and booking local service providers priced on hour rate.HourVille’s Local Search EngineThis website offers tag-based local search within a zip code radius for buyers to find local providers of services, rentals, places, and classes for lessons, tutoring, photography, ...
  9 hours ago

• Is PagesJaunes Doing Better than Yahoo?

  
  Screenwerk — Authority: 536
  I was in a meeting today with some folks in Montreal and I was told that Pages Jaunes (France) saw approximately 44% of its revenue coming from online. I was then told that the company has more online revenue that Yahoo! in Europe. If it’s true it’s pretty remarkable. Can anyone verify. I’m in the airport so I ...
  15 hours ago

• New Bing Mobile Client Launches

  
  Internet2Go - An Opus Research Advisory Service - — Authority: 134
  The old Microsoft Live Search mobile app offered a very strong and competitive user experience and featured voice search as well. I liked it quite a bit and believed it was not well appreciated. Today, in addition to a major upgrade of Bing Maps for the PC , Microsoft relaunched (or launched ) the Bing mobile client ...
  15 hours ago

• New Study Helps SMB Owner Analyze Local Search Data

  
  Small Business Trends — Authority: 558
  Local reviews and citations are critical to helping your SMB site rank in the search engines’ local algorithms. We’ve heard this countless times. But is it just raw numbers that matter or does the quality of the review site domain play a part? Is there more that goes into it? These were the questions that Tom ...
  1 day ago

• Groupon Raises a Whopping $30M

  
  Screenwerk — Authority: 536
  Local deals and coupon (er, “social commerce”) purveyor Groupon announced that it had raised $30 million: Groupon, the social commerce service that has saved consumers in cities across America more than $36 million since its launch 12 months ago, has raised a $30 million round of capital led by Accel ...
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• Google’s Top Local Searches by City

  
  Screenwerk — Authority: 536
  Here’s a list of the top local queries by US city from Google’s year-end list: What’s striking is how distinct and local they are. I’m sure there are other patterns that exist but with low blood sugar I’m unable to find them now.
  1 day ago

• Google Maps Local Listing Advertising

  
  SmallBusinessOnlineCoach.com — Authority: 110
  Google is in beta testing on their Local Listing Ads , the question I have is why do you think its taken them so long to  start to monetize these local listings?   Do you think there was no need in the past because they didn’t display the 7-Pack in the organic search engine pages. Now that the Google Maps 7-Pack ...
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• Local Display Ads: Where Are They Going?

  
  Screenwerk — Authority: 536
  The Kelsey Group’s latest release projects an increase in geotargeted display advertising: The geotargeted display (or banner) advertising market will grow from $897 million in 2008 to $1.9 billion in 2013, representing a compound annual growth rate of 16 percent, according to BIA/Kelsey. The geotargeted segment ...
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• Weekly Search & Social News: 12/01/09

  
  Search Engine Journal — Authority: 647
  Welcome ot another edition of ‘ 7 Days of Search and Social ‘ – last week was fairly quiet on most fronts except for the blogosphere which seemed to be churning out the goodiness with no slow down (for the US holiday). My personal fav, of course, was Yahoo’s re-release of the ‘User Sensitive PageRank’ ...
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• Study: Local Search Used by 81%

  
  Screenwerk — Authority: 536
  SEMPO and Advertise.com have put out findings from a study of online marketers. Survey respondents indicated the following about their campaigns (sample size not provided). 81.7% of participants indicated that they implement local search advertising campaigns online. Best ROI: Search – 70.7% ...
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• Getting Noticed with Google Maps

  
  WebProNews Videos — Authority: 624
  Are you utilizing Google Maps ? If not, you could be hurting your business. According to Brian Combs , the Founder and Principal of ionadas local , maps are very important if you want to be noticed in Google . Even if you have top ranking keywords, you could still be missing out. Combs told WebProNews that ...
  2 days ago

• How Boston.com Made Lemonade Out Of Local Search Lemons

  
  WebGuild — Authority: 556
  I always thought that Boston.com’s local search tool on the site was a model for other newspapers to replicate. However it appears that “local search” on Boston.com was something of a failure. According to the Nieman Journalism Lab it never really took off:The reality is that Boston.com’s locI always thought ...
  2 days ago

• How Boston.com Made Lemonade Out Of Local Search Lemons

  
  Search Engine Land: News About Search Engines & Search Marketing — Authority: 762
  I always thought that Boston.com’s local search tool on the site was a model for other newspapers to replicate. However it appears that “local search” on Boston.com was something of a failure. According to a story on the Nieman Journalism Lab site it never really took off:The reality is that Boston.com’s local ...
  2 days ago

• Google Local citation & review data study

  
  Blogstorm SEO blog — Authority: 424
  With Google Local results taking up more and more space in the search results local search is becoming (at least for Branded3) one of the key things we focus on for clients with multiple locations. The Google Local algorithm isn’t the same as the main search algorithm but it does have similarities such as ...
  2 days ago

• Boston.com: No More Keyword Sales, But Search is Leverageable

  
  Search Engine News — Authority: 151
  Newspapers haven’t done too well with local search, despite efforts to leverage their potential mix of human editors and algorithms. But Boston.com made more of an effort than many others, launching a local search/directory effort in 2006. As chronicled by Nieman Lab, that effort started out on a promising note but ...
  2 days ago

• Boston.com: No More Keyword Sales, But Search is Leverageable

  
  Local Onliner — Authority: 464
  Newspapers haven’t done too well with local search, despite efforts to leverage their potential mix of human editors and algorithms. But Boston.com made more of an effort than many others, launching a local search effort in 2006. As chronicled by Nieman Lab , that effort started out on a promising note but quickly ...
  2 days ago

• How a shift in perspective salvaged Boston.com’s local search project

  
  Nieman Journalism Lab — Authority: 674
  In 2006, Boston.com launched a local search tool that was supposed to be a big part of the site’s future. The project made perfect sense on paper : Readers would get search results focused on eastern Massachusetts. Those results would mix the best of the machine and human worlds by using algorithms and ...
  3 days ago

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