Stuart McKelvey, CEO of TMP Directional Marketing, is quoted as saying “There is no true leader in local search.” This is not an accurate statement. In reality the local search leader is pretty clearly Google.
Tag: localsearch
Google Maps Fails Me
heh. that’s what photo on maps is for
Freaky Google Beta
411 that thinks like Google. Now I see why it’s something Google would do.
because taking the inefficiencies out of the telco business is not enough.
Google Voice Local Search
if you are one of those sad humans depending on a phone, this might be for you.
SkypeFind
SkypeFind is one of the most interesting features that we’ve done in quite a while now. We call it “Local businesses you like”, and that’s what it is – a collection of businesses, with reviews and comments, built by everyone using Skype.
searching for user-generated business listings. they missed the opportunity to add the user’s current location.
Local Search structure
only by using a structure (schema) that is based on the real world would you ever be able to find it.
Maps Growth
How do these smaller UGC-focused review sites compare against the bigger players in local search? Yahoo! Local and Google Maps, which includes local content, received more than 10X the market share of visits of Insider Pages in February 2007. Traffic to Google Maps increased by 26% from January to February 2007.
Local.com
wow, do they ever suck. they don’t even have maps. via rekha
Geocoding Pages
people wondering how to geotag each page of a site. most were using ICBM tags on a per site basis, but why not per page.
Slander local business
This kind of slander could destroy a small business, like my auto mechanic. It should be criminal. Insider pages knowing paid people to create fraudulent reviews and given the statistics of the reviews they made no effort manage the problem. I presume it would be a piece of cake for some lawyer to find 1000 businesses slandered like my auto mechanic has been and bring suit against the various parties in this example. Something more severe than letting the market punish them is appropriate.
This is the dark side of social networking (talent scrapping) sites. Get the talent to commit the crimes you need committed. The social networking site owner as troll. In the worst case the business is looking for a way to force, blackmail the local businesses into participating at the site. Angie’s List has been accused of that.
oy. no user-generated accuracy, in this case
Gregor J. Rothfuss 