Yootsa.com is one of the scrappier and newer U.S. "meta search engines." Not yet one year old, the site considers itself a "new generation meta search engine," by virtue of its simplicity and location-aware search function. As part of its…
Editor and Publisher Senior Editor Joe Strupp lists the top newspaper industry events of the past year. In related news, Scarborough Research did a relatively small sample study that shows online newspaper readers are more likely than the average Internet…
Bill Slawski today examines how a vertical strategy can be important in local search. This was a significant theme at ILM:06, and we're beginning to see a shift toward vertical segmentation. Take a look. It's an interesting read, and I'll…
The news has been full of the immense bonuses that are being paid to financial and legal executives because of their companies' incredibly profitable year. The individuals whom we read about tend to be the investment bankers and traders or…
BBC News reports on a Gartner study that predicts the number of blogs will peak at around 100 million next year. "Most people who would ever start a web blog had already done so," said the article, quoting Gartner analyst…
Online recruitment spending has surpassed print recruitment spending for the first time, according to my friends and former colleagues at Borrell Associates. The line was crossed in 4Q 2006 (now), and online now accounts for US$5.9 billion, while print accounts…
It is the end of the year, and the executive turntable is spinning a little faster. Today, it was TrueLocal head Jake Baillie's turn to announce his departure. TrueLocal, a spin-off from GeoSign, provides unique, local company URL information for…
The Australian directory publisher Sensis is continuing its efforts to build online destinations for key verticals. Sensis recently unveiled a beta version of CarShowroom.com.au, a site that allows comparative shopping of new cars sold in Australia, according to this report…
I'm a bit late on this news, but Digg.com started off the week with a new interface that users so far (going by anecdotal evidence) seem to really like. Part of the redesign involves the integration of videos and podcasts.…
Just weeks after Yahoo! announced a management overhaul, AOL announced today that it will reorganize its corporate structure into six different divisions that will each report directly to COO Ron Grant. This is meant to clean up the communication tree…
Last week we wrote about NearbyNow's new mobile product. Quoting myself: Today's announcement involves a mobile search platform that allows any mobile device user to send product queries via text to a mall's designated NearbyNow short code. Info will be…
Simon Greenman, R.H. Donnelley senior VP of digital strategy innovation and products, confirmed today that he is stepping down and likely to be replaced by Sean Green, 36, who was promoted to VP of strategy and business development in October.…
The difference in lookups between print Yellow Pages and Internet Yellow Pages and local search continues to be a big one. It is also a major reason why the channels haven't converged as much as conventional wisdom would dictate. Just…
On Tuesday, both my wife and I tried to get on Amazon.com from two separate computers. We had the same problem: We were both trying to pay for our purchases through Amazon's One-Click Service, but the credit cards that were…
As we reported last week, Zillow has taken a significant step by offering free listings in its real estate maps. Zillow has since provided a counter on its home page that currently lists just over 9,000 sale listings so far…
Following Tuesday's post on Google's efforts to bring more SMEs online, here is a recent audio interview with Google's head of SME product development, Dan Rubinstein, (click to stream the audio if you have a browser plug in for streaming…
Online local commerce is seeping into nearly every facet of our lives. The latest: parking. ABCNews.com reports on a start-up called SpotScout.com that wishes to create eBay-style auctions for parking spots. So in busy urban areas at specific times of…
The Internet, e-mail and instant messaging are great ways to jumpstart word-of-mouth "conversations." But just 4 percent of word-of-mouth conversations (which are just short of a "lead") are ultimately passed off via e-mail, and 3 percent through IM. Another 1…
Telecom New Zealand has formed a partnership with Yahoo!7, a 50-50 partnership between Yahoo! and Australia's Seven Network, to provide e-mail, search and other Internet services for the telco's Xtra online business, The Australian newspaper has reported. The new joint…
Gary Price over at Search Engine Watch has a nice roundup of mobile shopping platforms. This intersects with local in some of the mobile shopping products announced within the past week. These include a mobile shopping SMS-based search platform launched…
