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Indian Action: Microsoft Chooses NAVTEQ For Maps, Yahoo Invests In 411 Provider
India is something of a parallel universe in terms of search and internet activity. It’s a massive and incredibly dynamic market but...
Google Maps: #1 In Features, Market Share Rising
As Google Maps continues to roll out new features that competing map services don’t have, web users are rewarding it with big gains in...
A New Scourge For Yahoo: Affiliate Mapspam
I’ve been writing about Mapspam appearing in both Google and Yahoo search results for some time now. Mapspam is where black hat SEOs spam...
A Local Look At Microsoft’s Bid For Yahoo
Last Friday, shortly after the Microsoft bid for Yahoo was made public, Danny and I had an opportunity to discuss the proposed acquisition with...
Google Maps Gaining On Market Leader Mapquest
Mapquest arguably “owns” the mapping brand online. It has been the dominant mapping site for years by a wide margin. But that...
Meet The Local Search Engines
A report from today’s opening panel at SMX Local & Mobile, Denver, Colorado. Huge market, huge confusion, huge challenges—that...
Yahoo Local Now Features “User Denigrated Content”
After exploring Yahoo’s Mapspam, I started investigating Yahoo’s end user local reporting features more fully. I may have...
Send To (German) Car: The New Local Search Front
Google CEO Eric Schmidt said at one point that one of the reasons Google wanted to get into radio advertising was that the company...
