Comments on: Local Search Finally Living Up To Its Promise

By: Dave Barnes

Dave Barnes — Mon, 17 Sep 2007 03:22:55 +0000

Local search still sucks.
Googlea nd Yahoo do not know where I live. (And, don’t talk to me about any other search engines as their market share is in the toilet.)
The Yellow Pages should have owned this market/business, but they are beyond clueless.
When Google knows my lat long, then local search will work.

By: Joe Duck

Joe Duck — Sun, 16 Sep 2007 07:07:44 +0000

Nice post Bill. It does seem conspicuous that there is no massive high quality local site yet given all the data, but I think the best positioned folks to do this are yellow page companies and they are having trouble “getting it” while at the same time concentrating mostly on protecting their very lucrative print advertising markets.

By: Tim C

Tim C — Sat, 15 Sep 2007 05:17:01 +0000

Good Article… your right about needing them needing the same tools as the big boys – especially analytics.

I’m not sure about your assessment of their sophistication… the other piece that may need to be in place is a sales force.

SMB owners like customer service.

By: David

David — Fri, 14 Sep 2007 19:45:44 +0000

I couldn’t agree more – I’ve been into Local for a few years now and have positioned myself as the Local go to guy for search.

Just hope it gets busy :)