FAST put on its own kind of MacWorld this week in San Diego, evangelizing the way to its "enterprise search" solutions for every kind of customer, including major local players such as MediaNews Group, The Washington Post, InfoSpace, Scandinavian publishing…
A few interesting pieces of news came out of the Yellow Pages world today: Telstra has bailed out of the bidding for Telecom New Zealand's Yellow Pages Group. This comes as no surprise, as intense bidding has pushed the…
The long-awaited launch of local business search functionality for Google Maps Australia happened earlier this week, as reported by The Australian. According to the article: "The latest competitor to the established players, to be known as Google Maps, will directly…
In a move that resembles MySpace's partnership with SimplyHired (to create MySpace Jobs), fast moving social network Facebook has partnered with career site Jobster. CareerBuilder and Monster were in the running for this deal, according to GigaOm, but Jobster won…
New York Times Publisher Arthur Sulzberger Jr. was quoted in Israeli newspaper Haaretz as saying he wouldn't care if The Times ceased print publishing in five years. More specifically, when asked at the World Economic Forum whether he foresees The…
A handful of articles came out today that together triangulate some interesting points on the future of IPTV and local. The New York Times examines a few automated ad platforms and services that are following the trail blazed by Spot…
Idearc held its coming-out party today. President and CEO Kathy Harless sounded positively giddy: "This is an exciting day for us. We're off to a strong start as a publicly traded company. We have an established, value-generating portfolio, a resilient…
I'm a few days late to this, but FAST earlier in the week announced the launch of AdMomentum, a new contextual ad system meant to compete with Google's AdSense. AdMomentum will let Web site publishers sidestep Google and other online…
There is no better guide to how to avoid the potholes in hyper-local than Judy's Book cofounder Andy Sack, who has been writing a series of "don't do this at home" posts about Judy's Book's failed efforts building an online…
In the wake of the hard knocks reported by community journalism sites such as Backfence, and social review sites such as Judy's Book and Insider Pages, it seems to be a good time to reassess the category, starting with a…
Social media has been gaining steam over the past three years with advertisers large and small trying to find ways to harness and use popular social media sites to their advantage. Noticeably absent from the gathering has been the Yellow…
The online video space continues to see a lot of action. This is not to be confused with the IPTV space, talked about in the previous post, which involves telco-delivered video service packages (akin to cable). Online video is rather…
AT&T's triple-play product bundle, U-verse, is currently available in 11 U.S. markets and is largely in testing phases. It has a long way to go before it can compete with cable offerings in many markets, but once it clears content…
Search Engine Watch's Kevin Newcomb reports that Michael Gray will post 20 interviews with local search marketers and experts on his Graywolf's SEO Blog this week. So far he's posted a handful, including Aaron Wall, Dean Bloomfield, Bill Slawski and…
Krillion, a start-up with deep pockets from Hummer Winblad, launched the first iteration of its "localized search engine" today. The highly attractive, ad-supported service is kicking off with a dedicated appliance search. The next wave of localized searches will include…
The decline of their ad share with retailers has newspapers worried to death. But several execs speaking at the NAA Marketing Conference last week in Las Vegas said they can bring retailers back into the fold with special vertical sites.…
Even as Yahoo! pushes hard to fully partner with newspapers online, Google has taken a different tack, offering to sell advertising for newspapers in print. The Google Print Ads program began in June 2005 with magazines to decidedly mixed…
The New York Times reports that Comcast attributes its strong fourth-quarter earnings in which profits tripled on bundled services (voice, video and Internet). Competition is heating up in the triple-play space, as we keep saying. It should be…
GigaOm reports on a new local city guide-like product being tested by Yahoo!. It's called Our City (sounds an awful lot like Ask's new local search product, AskCity) and is being tested in Bangalore and New Delhi. From the looks…
ZDNet reports on two different mobile usage studies here and here. Both show usage and revenues growing dramatically over the next three to five years, with entertainment services (games, music, TV) having the steepest incline. Though search wasn't mentioned, increased…
