This afternoon Fast Search & Transfer and AutoTrader.com held a Webinar on how AutoTrader.com "is driving new product development, speeding time to market and improving customer satisfaction, by shifting from its proprietary search solution to one powered by FAST Enterprise…
YellowPages.com has landed a new CTO, Brad Mohs, whose background includes stints at Scientific Games and AutoTrader.com. At Scientific Games, Mohs worked on developing software for lottery organizations, including systems capable of more than 1 million transactions per minute. At…
Sol Trujillo, CEO of Australian telecom Telstra, was quoted in a June 24 article in The Australian as saying that Sensis, Telstra's search, directory and classified business, "basically is on track" to meet its target of doubling revenues by 2010.Trujillo's…
We offer our congratulations to Perry Evans, long a friend of The Kelsey Group, for being named "Entrepreneur of the Year" by Ernst & Young in the software category. The award was given regionally and was announced at a Denver…
Google is testing video ads, suggesting that it might be interested in moving from a paid content model to an ad-supported one that could be integrated with AdWords. In addition to testing the software, Google is no doubt testing the…
Tomorrow, Ingenio's intellectual capital monetization machine — or Ether as Ingenio named it — goes live. Ingenio was once Keen.com — an early entrant to the peer-to-peer connectivity space. Ether is designed to help individuals leverage their IP capacity by…
David Jackson posted an invitation e-mail from Google regarding its pending CPA test. A CPA-based ad product is part of the wider strategy to push toward landing page optimization, conversion tracking products like the rumored GBuy, offline media ads and…
In Search Engine Guide this week, Gord Hotchkiss said that "the C Level Ceiling" is the primary problem that search engines are facing in growing search expenditures. "Senior execs don't get search, they don't want to get search and they…
InsiderPages announced the completion of its first San Francisco Bay Area consumer reviews drive. The fundraising effort generated more than 4,500 reviews by area clubs and schools. InsiderPages distributed $8,000 to participating schools as a result of the program, or…
We just came across this item on the Asia Corporate News that Yellow Pages Singapore is getting some positive coverage from at least one financial analyst, a reflection of the company's ongoing turnaround efforts. One of the leaders of the…
This morning we had the chance to catch up with InfoSpace about its newest local online search product launch, named Find It. InfoSpace is an interesting company that holds the rare position of having parallel initiatives in both local online…
The French directory publisher PagesJaunes is, to no one's surprise, attracting considerable interest from private equities, which have led the pack of bidders for the 54 percent stake in PagesJaunes being sold off by France Telecom. Initial bids were reportedly…
Canada's Yellow Pages Group has launched a beta version of its YellowPages.ca online directory. The company is touting the new site as a combination of an IYP and a local search product by allowing users to "obtain structured results with…
A nice ad in today's WSJ Marketing Section from Google suggests the global search engine company wants to ramp up its sales capacity to "blue chip" clients. The ad, leveraging the familiar primary colors and clean design of Google's general…
Right Media yesterday launched the Right Media Exchange. We were briefed a couple of weeks ago on the new service, which will be an open media exchange where advertisers and ad networks can bid on ad inventory. Publishers can likewise…
As posted elsewhere The N.Y. Times ran a lengthy story about the shareholder battle at the Tribune Co. Much was made at the time of the acquisition/merger of the Times Mirror and Tribune companies about the possible synergies the "deal"…
In addition to Matt's post below, it is worth noting that a very high proportion — more than 75 percent — of radio advertising revenues are "local" in nature. This fact is sometimes underappreciated because the ad dollars flow from…
Ben Kuo from SoCalTech.com recently interviewed Bid4Spots Founder and CEO Dave Newmark. Bid4Spots is a Los Angeles area company that auctions unsold radio inventory through a weekly reverse auction. Interview Bid4Spots Web site During the auction process radio stations compete…
