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MapQuest taps Yelp info for local push

2008-10-09 22:10:25 by admin in Web 2.0 Portals
 
MapQuest is fleshing out its new local site. (Click to enlarge.) (Credit: CNET News) MapQuest will begin showing business reviews from start-up Yelp on Thursday, part of a plan to expand from just a... [[ This is a content summary only. Visit my website for full links, other content, and more
 
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Local Search Engines The Best Bet

2008-04-14 05:26:49 by Semaphore Software in Software Development Articles, IT News, Offshore Outsourcing Articles, SEO Tips & Tutorials From Sem
 
...local businesses, online local advertising is a successful and powerful method of profit generation. Gone are the days of people opening up their newspapers and turning to the back section to find needed services or paging through phone books seeking the right company in their local area. Today, it is quicker to do an online search. Most...
 
Tags: local, local business, online, online e-mail address, online website, online local, business, local businesses, engine ooptimization services
 
 
 
 
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Local Search Engine Zvents Secures $24 Million

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2008-09-30 12:30:50 by Charles Knight in Alt Search Engines
...local search engine and paid listings ad network, today announced that it has secured $24 million in funding New strategic investors include Nokia Growth Partners, the growth capital arm of Nokia (NYSE: NOK) and the worlds leading mobile phone supplier; and AT&T (NYSE: T), the largest U.S. wireless company which, through its YELLOWPAGES.COM...
 
Tags: local, local listings, local advertisers, consumers, local consumers, zvents, world-class local, successful local, individual media partners
 
 
 
 
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How to Start a Local Support System Using Social Media

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2008-09-12 16:58:51 by Leslie Poston in Mashable!
...local one. To do this you need to tap into the power of your online network and use it to branch out. It only takes a few simple steps to make an active real world connection that starts online 1) Nurture Your Online Network If you only log in to Twitter once a month and use TwitterFeed or Ping.fm to send links and impersonal comments to it...
 
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Centerd, Née FatDoor, Relaunches As A Local Search/Event Planning Site

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2008-06-18 03:58:27 by Erick Schonfeld in TechCrunch
...Local were a standalone startup, it might look like Centerd . Partly that is because CEO Jennifer Dulski used to be the general manager in charge of Yahoo Local. Centerd, which publicly launches today, is a mixture of an event-planning/invitation site and a highly targeted local search engine, with a little social networking thrown in The...
 
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New Media and Local News

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2008-07-08 07:53:32 by Mark 'Rizzn' Hopkins in Mashable!
...localized news online over the last few months. Ive tried to come at writing a post on the topic about ten different ways and wound up scrapping it each time. Presumably, if youre reading this, a post Ive written on the topic has finally passed muster Whats finally pushed me over the edge to give it another shot writing it are two things -...
 
Tags: local, cbs local, local news coverage, news, local business bloggers, google news, local paper, news online, local news organization
 
 
 
 
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AdWords and local markets

2008-01-03 15:02:00 by Karen in Official Google Blog
 
...Local Markets According to a WebVisible-Nielsen survey from October 2007, 74% of people use search engines to find information when purchasing a product or service from a local business. Yet millions of businesses dont have websites, and even those that do, dont often engage in search marketing because they lack the time, knowledge or...
 
Tags: local, local markets, online, local online, local business, local merchants, businesses, traditional media businesses, google adwords
 
 
 
 
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Yahoo Local Launches in India - Easily Hackable

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2008-04-30 06:35:52 by Allen Stern in CenterNetworks
...local search into India this week into four major cities: Delhi, Mumbai, Bangalore and Chennai. The local search in India works very much like the local search in the U.S. To be honest, I don't use Yahoo Local - I've been more of a Yelp'er or lately also searching via address using Google Maps. Though playing with Yahoo Local this morning,...
 
Tags: yahoo local, local, yahoo local india, yahoo, india, code, script code, easily hackable, google
 
 
 
 
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Praized Offers Websites Free Local Search

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2008-07-09 14:18:04 by Kristen Nicole in Mashable!
Local search is one of those things you typically find on niche sites for events or real estate communities, and the mobile local search sector is growing steadily as GPS-enabled phones provide more relevancy and practical features for end users. But with a new distributed search tool called Praized , any publisher can add local search and...
 
Tags: local, local business profiles, local section, mobile local, results, users, encourage users, initial data set, data
 
 
 
 
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Local-motors.com - A New American Car Company

2008-04-10 17:23:00 by thomasg in KillerStartups.com - all