"Human-powered" mobile search engine ChaCha announced today that it has integrated voice search capability. The company started in late 2005 as an online search engine that tapped human operators to return results, with the thought that directly answering natural language…
Local search platform provider Local Matters has announced it will acquire mobile search platform provider mobilePeople for a combination of cash and stock. In a nutshell, this will extend Local Matters' publisher partners' ability to sell mobile and DA-delivered voice…
Here is the week-in-blogging from TKG, in case you missed anything. Click below to read each post in full. Google's Street View Cameras Go Offroading Google announced today that it has expanded its coverage of six cities in Street View,…
Google announced today that it has expanded its coverage of six cities in Street View, and has added 13 more: Albuquerque, NM Anchorage, AK Austin, TX Cleveland, OH Fairbanks, AK Little Rock, AR Madison, WI Nashville, TN Rockford, IL Richmond, VA…
YouTube launched a series of new analytics features today, known as Insight. The product gives video producers more detailed information about where and when their videos were viewed. For now this drills down as far as state and country (using…
Local/social search product Loladex launched this morning, currently built exclusively around a Facebook application. The application will specifically seek to tap into the trust inherent in a group of Facebook contacts, as a source of information on, and interaction around,…
Last week at SES New York, I had the chance to catch up with Alex Muller, CEO of new mobile shopping search product Slifter. The mobile application allows users to search for products that can be found in local stores,…
Here is a roundup of blog posts from last week in case you missed any. Click below to read each post in full. What Is the iPhone's Real Impact? M:Metrics released a study earlier this week that makes big claims…
M:Metrics released a study earlier this week that makes big claims about the iPhone's impact on the mobile market. It points to the high percentage of iPhone users who are accessing mobile data such as search, browsing and mobile entertainment.…
We knew it was coming sooner or later. Google has begun to allow users to upload video directly into the Local Business Center. Companies such as TurnHere and eLocalListing were already uploading this content for their SMB clients via direct…
Local Matters has announced a new publisher platform called Guidespot. The company works with a global who's-who list of publishers to power their IYPs and online sites. This move extends its capability include community and UGC-driven local guides. This comes…
SES New York is winding down and there has been a lot of attention paid to local -- much more so than in past SES shows. Specifically there was a track on day 1 that John Kelsey and I ran,…
Marchex has released a report today that profiles the local search space. It essentially takes a deeper dive than the report the company put out in September, which sought to explain the local opportunity to those unfamiliar with the space.…
Here is a quick recap of posts from the past week, in case you missed any. Click below to read each post in full. Local Media Survival Skills in a Down Economy S&MM online columnist Robert Grede shared some interesting…
Neal Polachek and I had the opportunity this morning to sit down with Mike Galgon, cheif advertising strategist for Microsoft. Galgon was brought on board as part of Microsoft's $6 billion acquisition of aQuantive, which he cofounded in 1997. The…
In an unexpected move, AOL has acquired social network Bebo for $850 million. A move into social networking is interesting for AOL given that portals have traditionally dropped the ball when it comes to social networks (albeit, mostly homegrown ones).…
To follow up on the recent post about Yelp's funding, I was able to sit down with Yelp CEO Jeremy Stoppleman yesterday at the company's San Francisco headquarters. The company is moving in some interesting directions and the $15 million…
Local.com and Idearc Media today renewed their relationship that distributes Superpages ads on Local.com. Superpages advertisers get premium placement on Local.com, while Local.com gets more content in its network and a rev share. According to the release: Under the renewed…
SMB-focused video ad platform Jivox launched today, along with a $2.7 million seed round led by Opus Capital. Jivox joins the hot local merchant video advertising space with a self-serve ad creation and placement engine for SMBs. This includes ad…
Here is a recap of blog posts from this week in case you missed any. Click below to read each post in full. OK, Here’s the Lineup for Seattle, April 30-May 2 It’s been a lot of fun putting this…
