IRVINE, Calif. -- Local.com Corporation (NASDAQ:LOCM), a leading local search engine, today announced that the company received a Hitwise U.S. Top 10 Award. The company's leading local search site, www.local.com, ranked fifth - up from seventh place in December 2007 - in the Business and Finance, Business Directories online industry...
IRVINE, Calif. -- Local.com Corporation (NASDAQ: LOCM), a leading local search engine, today announced a strategic partnership with MediaSpan, a leading provider of digital content management and online marketing solutions, to provide Local.com's Local Connect[TM] local search platform to more than 1,500 of MediaSpan's newspaper, TV and radio clients.
As I've mentioned before, Google SMS is a fabulous tool for fetching information from your cell phone. Just shoot a text message to 466453 GOOGLE and you can get all kinds of helpful stuff in return: flight status, business listings, weather reports, driving directions, and so on. Of course, if...
Blizzard Internet Marketing invariably see a gain in organic rankings after optimizing a website for appropriate local search terms. Local platform placement is normally enhanced as well, and pushing the data out to a multitude of local platforms allows the clients to enjoy a widespread presence on the web. By...
NEW YORK -- JupiterResearch, a division of Jupitermedia Corporation (Nasdaq: JUPM), today announced that consumer demand for paid wireless information services remains low. With just 20% of consumers willing to pay for 411 information and only 7% willing to pay for local search on their cell phones, local information providers...
BERKELEY HEIGHTS, N.J. -- As local search gains momentum and local ad growth soars, the Yellow Pages AssociationTM (YPATM) today announced an expansion of the Local Search Guide (www.localsearchguide.org). Since launching the Guide in December 2004 with partners comScore, SEMPO and The Kelsey Group, the YPA has added to the...
AsiaInfo Services 05-19-2005 Sina's Local Search to Cover 150 Cities at Year-end BEIJING, May 19, 2005 SinoCast via COMTEX -- China's leading portal Sina Corporation has began offering testing services of its Local Search local.sina.com.cn fo AsiaInfo Services ...
The last few years have seen quite a few developments in the search engine arena. Many search portals have enhanced and further developed their Web pages. The developments have resulted in enhanced online operations. In addition to general search enhancements, the developments focused on the news, personalization, and local search...
With Overture's launch of local search listing targeting, Google's enhancement of local search targeting, and renewed interest in Internet Yellow Pages IYPs, local search marketing is heating up. Is local search just for local businesses? How do local search providers differ? Should national marketers use local search as part of...
AsiaInfo Services 09-08-2005 Google Rolls out Local Search for Chinese Users BEIJING, Sep 08, 2005 SinoCast via COMTEX -- SinoCASt ?C Google officially rolls out "local search", the latest search service, for Chinese users, disclose AsiaInfo Services ...
DALLAS -- Superpages.com[R], a service of Idearc Media Corp., today continues to incorporate additional features on its Web site to provide users with a robust local search experience. A newly-signed agreement with World Choice Travel, a division of Travelocity Partner Network, integrates a hotel reservation system with Superpages.com's business listings...
DALLAS -- Superpages.com[R], a service of Idearc Media Corp., recently launched a Yahoo! Widget allowing consumers to easily search Superpages.com for local businesses from their desktops. Superpages.com made its widget more user-friendly, by developing one of the only local search widgets that conveniently displays search results within the widget.
By Michael Bazeley, San Jose Mercury News, Calif. Knight Ridder/Tribune Business News By Michael Bazeley, San Jose Mercury News, Calif. Knight Ridder/Tribune Business News
AsiaInfo Services 08-31-2007 Nokia and Cgogo to Launch Local Search Jointly BEIJING, Aug 31, 2007 SinoCast via COMTEX -- Nokia and the globally noted wireless search service provider Cgogo Co., Ltd. jointly announced that they had made an agr AsiaInfo...
BOSTON -- Skyhook Wireless, provider of the industry's first Wi-Fi based positioning system, announced today that Jed Rice, vice president of market development, will be a featured panelist at Search Engine Strategies Local Search Conference & Expo, taking place on Thursday, September 28 in Denver, CO at the Adam's Mark...
WEST HOLLYWOOD, Calif. -- Citysearch, the leading provider of local search services and trusted content, today announced the appointment of Scott Morrow as the company's Executive Vice President of Product and Marketing. The company also recently retained THUNDER FACTORY, an integrated marketing agency based in the San Francisco Bay Area,...
BELLEVUE, Wash. -- InfoSpace Inc. (NASDAQ: INSP) today announced a group of mobile local search products that carriers can integrate to enable subscribers to easily and quickly find everything from nearby restaurants and movie times to maps and driving directions. The offerings are the latest innovations from InfoSpace, which provides...
Yahoo! UK & Ireland has poached AltaVista International marketing director Karl Gregory as head of marketing for its new search engine division, as it gears up to launch a raft of local search products. Yahoo! UK & Ireland has poached AltaVista International marketing director...