Understanding Google My Business & Local Search
Category Archive For "Local Mobile"
Local Links of Interest
More GoogleClick News: Influential Congressman (Very Publicly) Asks a TON of Interesting Questions (John Betelle – BatellMedia.com) Lots of interesting questions are asked of Google in the context of the Doubleclick merger. One that caught my attention: Please explain how Google uses the information or data described in Question 1(a) – (l), including, but not …
LocWeb 2008 Call for Papers
LocWeb 2008: First International Workshop on Location and the Web has issued a call for papers for their conference April 22, 2008 in Beijing, China. From their post: This workshop brings together researchers from academia and industry labs to discuss and present the latest results and trends in all facets of the relationships between physical …
Local Links of Interest
Why today local search fails – and how to fix it (Frank Fuchs locallytype.com) Well for local search there are a number of problems that lead to a rather poor user experience – well lets say felt user experience. 1.   The data basis to base the algorithm on for local search is poor in comparison …
Local Links of Interest
Ads on Google Maps for Mobile (& Goog-411?) Coming Next Year (Greg Sterling – LocalMobile Search from the recent Google Local Symposium) * Performance of mobile ads “is excellent†* Google has discussed ads on Goog411 and will likely add them but not before the company feels comfortable with the user experience * The response …
My (ancient) cell phone as a reading device.
I have an old Nokia 3650 cell phone with a pre-columbian Java and an even older Symbian OS rev. Although it might just as well be called the Simian OS for all the good that my opposable thumbs do me. While it basically sucks I have learned how to take advantage of its many Web …
Local Links of Interest
Google, Yahoo Clash With AT&T, Verizon on U.S. Mobile Phone Ads (Bloomberg) At stake is a market that may surge 10-fold to $16.2 billion globally by 2011, says EMarketer Inc., a research firm in New York. Google, based in Mountain View, California, sees as much as half of future sales coming from mobile phones. While …
Local Links of Interest
Yahoo: Mobile web to overtake PCs in next decade (Gary Price at ResourceShelf.com) Local Search Guide – IYP & Search Engine Who’s Who The Yellow Pages Association, along with sponsors eStara and Superpages.com and supporting partners comScore, SEMPO (Search Engine Marketing Professional Organization) and The Kelsey Group, offers the Local Search Guide, which profiles IYPs, …
Local Links of Interest
Google Maps Adds Terrain View, Replaces Hybrid View (Barry Schwartz – SearchEngineLand) The Mobile Internet: Still Years Away? (Take Greg Sterling’s Survey on Local Mobile use) Internet Yellow Pages: Worth The Effort? (Chris Silver Smith – SearchEngineLand) Informal Poll: Ask Best for Local Search (Greg Sterling – Screenwerk)
Local Links of Interest: Local Search News goes mainstream
It is fascinating to me to see the emergence of local search & local mobile to be appearing so prominently in the mainstream press. In today’s online edition of the NY Times, the following three headlines from the technology section were featured on the front page: A Web Tour Will Show Stores From the Inside …
Local Links of Interest
• Jaiku, Android and Google’s Mobile Ads • What Google has planned for Jaiku? Because his mobile phone is able to broadcast the location automatically (even if it’s not very precise), the user posts more than a message. The text can be connected to his location and create a list of preferences for each place …
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