The Onion Covers Local Search
From the Friday afternoon humor department, The Onion has a funny article about the majority of Americans that can't locate a Payless Shoe store on a mall directory. I wonder what NearbyNow thinks of the data? ;)
Local Video Gets More Attention; SEO Is Key
Mixpo's Glenn Pingul has an interesting column in Search Engine Land today about online video's growing relevance as an ad vehicle for SMBs. He hits on all the main points, discussed here in the past, about video's benefits for local…
3-D Mapping News: Everyscape and TeleAtlas
3-D mapping company EveryScape has secured a $7 million B round led by Waltham, Massachusetts-based Dace Ventures. Similar to Google's Street View, the company stitches together 3-D renderings of street-level cityscapes. Unlike Google or any other mapping provider, however, EveryScape…
Krillion Powers Panasonic Product Search
Last week, Krillion took an evolutionary step by feeding its local product listings into TheFind.com. -- essentially becoming a data provider, in addition to a local product search destination. After talking with Krillion CEO Joel Toledano last week, it became…
TKG Data and Analysis: A Weekly Recap
Here is a recap of posts from the past week on the TKG blog, in case you missed any. Click below to read each post in full. 750 Newspapers Working With Google on Print Ads Program Google’s Print Ads program,…
Automating Local Video: A Conversation With TurnHere
Earlier this week, I had the chance to meet with local video production house TurnHere and take a peek under the hood. The company is working on an advertiser facing production management platform that will help it scale up to…
Yelp Gets a Boost
Yelp! has announced that it got $15 million in a fourth round of funding led by DAG and existing investors. The company also sent some growth metrics: October '07 -- 5M Unique Visitors December '07 -- 6M UVs January '08…
Yahoo! Beefs Up Local Organic Results
Yahoo! announced that it will make a considerable change to its result pages, and the content it will allow Web sites to provide in organic listings. According to the Yahoo! Search Blog: Site owners will be able to provide all…
Citysearch Keeps Distribution Deals Rolling
A couple of weeks ago, Citysearch formed a distribution deal with AOL that pushed its content and ads throughout the AOL Local Network. As we wrote here, this had a close resemblance to the December deal the company formed with…
TKG’s Global Local Search Forecast Launches Today
TKG's recently completed Global Yellow Pages and Local Search Forecast underpinned most of the discussion at last week's Local Online Media: London 08. Today it launches officially. Each year the forecast measures the size of the local search industry and…
TKG Data and Analysis: A Weekly Recap
Here is a quick recap of items from the TKG blog this week, in case you missed any. Click below to read each post in full. Online Video Boom Carries On ComScore Video Metrix announced today that December saw 10…
Online Video Boom Carries On
ComScore Video Metrix announced today that December saw 10 billion online video views -- the largest number to date. There were meanwhile 141 million total unique users to video sites. Google sites led in both categories. This general trend has…
Local Search in London: Andrew Day Evangelizes Online
Andrew Day, CEO of European directory publisher Truvo (formerly World Directories), took the stage with Charles Laughlin yesterday at TKG's one-day local search summit in London. His message can be summed up in one sound byte that was repeated a…
Live Blogging From London: Perry Evans on Local
Perry Evans, CEO of Local Matters, took the stage with Neal Polachek today at Local Online Media: London 08, to sift through some of the key issues in the quickly changing local search environment. Evans, as one of the ground-floor…
TKG Data and Analysis: A Weekly Recap
Here are some highlights from the TKG blog this week, in case you missed any posts. Click below to read each post in full. Microsoft's SMB Suite Tackles 'Webification' The New York Times' David Pogue writes this morning about some…
Google Photo Sharing: Time to Push?
This morning I noticed something vaguely different about Google. Just like when a friend or significant other changes something like a haircut, and you get an overall sense that something is different but you can't pinpoint it. Finally I saw…
Microsoft’s SMB Suite Tackles ‘Webification’
The New York Times' David Pogue writes this morning about some of the outcroppings of new innovation at Microsoft, apparent through the newest version of Office Live for Small Business. The product takes the "Webification" issue to heart by allowing…
AOL Taps Citysearch in Content Distribution Deal
AOL and Citysearch announced a deal today wherein Citysearch content will be distributed throughout the AOL network. According to what AOL told us, this will play out in a few different ways. AOL will infuse Citysearch editorial reviews, user reviews,…
Postmortem on PMA 08: Photography as a Search Vertical
I recently attended the Photo Marketers Association annual convention in Las Vegas. The PMA has been around since 1924 and has extended its reach to address an international mix of sub-verticals including photo retailers, professional photographers, mass merchandisers, professional labs,…
The Rise of ‘How-To’ Videos
Lately there has been a noticeable rise in the amount of attention and investment paid to online video sites that specialize in generating "how-to" videos. These include: ExpertVillage (acquired by Demand Media last June) VideoJug (received $30M last May) HowCast…