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- EXCLUSIVE: Google patent app shows extensive Google plans for mobile search
- A Google Patent application newly published on the United States Patent & Trademark Office website this morning appears to furnish extensive details on Google's plans for enhanced local searches via mobile devices.Fittingly enough, the Patent app is entitled, Local Search and Mapping for Mobile Devices.The Abstract gives us a sneak...
- Tags: Google, News, patents
- Blog posts 2007-05-24
- Google Voice Local Search just launched
- Google Voice Local Search just launchedRecorded ConversationDownload Squad's Brad Linder recorded the conversation.http://www.downloadsquad.com/2007/04/06/google-launches-goog-411/skype?I live in Canada too, I tried dialing google 411 from skype and just keep getting a busy signal, not sure if that would work or not, what do you think?Microsoft wants to rule the SOFTWARE world!If you...
- Tags: SEARCH, Google Voice Local Search, Google Voice, Google Inc., local search, Download Squad
- Discussion threads 2007-04-06
- Google Voice Local Search just launched
- Just minutes ago, Google updated their Google Labs page with what they call "Google Voice Local Search". It appears to be similar, if not related, to the long dead "voice search" project that doesnt work anymore.According to the product page, you can use it to actually connect to the...
- Tags: Google Labs
- Blog posts 2007-04-06
- Google Local Search: $31 billion risky business
- Google Local Search: $31 billion risky businessAll that text for a simple conclusionIt does not take all that text to write at the bottom of the article that a $31B idea is also a $31B risk. That is common sense in business.I think that local search will play incredibly important...
- Tags: SEARCH, local search, Google Local Search, Google Local, Google Inc.
- Discussion threads 2007-03-24
- Google Local Search: $31 billion risky business
- Last month I underscored the local advertising opportunity is currently wide open, putting forth “Google: $31 billion local dilemma”: High-profile, venture capital backed, locally-focused, online start-ups that launched with much fanfare and support are in critical condition—Judy’s Book, Backfence, InsiderPages—, unable to gain sufficient traction within local communities or...
- Tags: Search Advertising, Metrics, ROI, Google Software Applications, ecommerce, Amateur Content, Venture Capital, VC, Google, Yellow Pages, Search, Local
- Blog posts 2007-02-23
- Google Local at Google.com
- Google is keen on the $31 billion local advertising opportunity, as I discuss in ““Google: $31 billion local winner?” Most Google searches for local businesses are initiated at the general search box at Google.com, despite Google’s best efforts to drive users to start their local searches at Google Maps....
- Tags: SEARCH, Google Local, Google Inc., local listing, local search, local business
- Blog posts 2007-01-29
- Web 2.0 meets local search?
- Curious about how Web 2.0 impacts local search?“Web 2.0 & Local Search” was the topic du jour at this afternoon’s Local Ad World mini-conference in New York City.The answer in a nut shell? Google.Yes, $148 billion and counting market cap Google rules not only in search, but in Web 2.0,...
- Tags: CitySearch, Google Inc.
- Blog posts 2006-10-25
- Can Yahoo or Google make money in local?
- Yahoo’s top sales exec and Google’s top sales exec have something in common: both have set their sights on the lucrative, but fragmented, local ad market. Greg Coleman, Executive Vice President, Global Media Sales, Yahoo, said at Advertising Week recently: Local ad dollars are three times that of national ad...
- Tags: sales, advertisement
- Blog posts 2006-10-12
- Google Maps vs. Yahoo Local: multi-billion dollar local search battle
- In “Google wants $10 billion local online ad spend” I put forth Google’s local search advertising ambitions:Google is taking its mission to monetize “all the world’s information” to your neighborhood. Google laid down a local gauntlet today targeting the $10 billion in advertising local businesses are projected to spend online...
- Tags: advertisement, local search
- Blog posts 2006-09-28
- Top destinations for local search: Google, Yahoo!, MSN
- comScore observed a rise in local searches searches related to geographically distinct places. These searches involve local qualifiers, or search terms including specific items such as ZIP codes, telephone numbers and street addresses. Consumers are using local search tools to coincide with other online activity, such as job searches, retail...
- Tags: local search
- Blog posts 2005-11-21
- Where 2.0 gives direction to new world of mapping
- O'Reilly’s first Where 2.0 conference kicked off this morning in San Francisco with a preview of the latest in location-aware and mapping technologies along with the players who are using them to usher in a new class of Web applications and services. Conference co-chair Nathan Torkington got things rolling with...
- Tags: local search, Nathan Torkington
- Blog posts 2005-06-29
- First look at Microsoft's multisearch tool
- First look at Microsoft's multisearch toolCopying againSounds to me like they are attempting to copy Apple's Spotlight technology except they don't really hit the mark, again. Pathetic.The search progress has been clearly evident for some time now.....``REDMOND, Wash.--Microsoft revealed the progress it has made in building search technology on...
- Tags: PRODUCTIVITY, Microsoft Windows, SEARCH, Desktops, local search, Microsoft Corp., hard drive, Find Fast, Google Inc., local hard drive, Internet, tool
- Discussion threads 2004-07-29
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- My three cents: Verizon's text fee could cripple SMS services
- Verizon Wireless dropped a bomb today on companies that send content over SMS text messaging systems. Techmeme Effective Nov. 1, companies that send messages and other notifications to Verizon Wireless customers via SMS text message - that's everyone from Google to Twitter to startups like alerts.com - could be forced...
- Tags: Verizon Communications Inc., Text Messaging, Messaging, SMS, Verizon Wireless, Twitter, Text Messaging/SMS/MMS, Telephony, Cellular Phones, Consumer Electronics, Personal Technology, Online Communications, Networking, Sam Diaz
- Blog posts 2008-10-10
- Is Google working on the synchronization problem?
- ReadWriteWeb has a post up about the fact that Zoho has added offline access to Zoho Mail using Gears. Zoho continues to do a really good job of innovating when it comes to Ajax-based RIAs. They were very early to the game in creating offline support for Zoho Docs before...
- Tags: Google Inc., Rich Internet Application, Microsoft Corp., ReadWriteWeb, Zoho Mail, Ryan Stewart
- Blog posts 2008-10-10
- Will you forget about Android?
- Chris O'Brien from the Silicon Valley Mercury News has an interesting article on why he thinks we will soon forget about Android. When you look at Android up against iPhone, you have to agree that it's going to be a an uphill battle. But if anyone can do...
- Tags: Google Inc., Android, Cellular Phones, Consumer Electronics, Personal Technology, Garett Rogers
- Blog posts 2008-10-10
- Wall Street: MSFT should buy Yahoo, consider RIM
- A Wall Street investor has suggested that the stars may be aligned just right for Microsoft to make another run at Yahoo, this time for $22 per share. Investment fund Mithras Capital, which owns more than 1.9 million shares, or 0.14 percent, of Yahoo, said Microsoft has a window of...
- Tags: Research In Motion Ltd., Yahoo! Inc., Microsoft Corp., MSFT, Financial Accounting, Search, Advertising & Promotion, Handhelds, Finance, Marketing, Hardware, Sam Diaz
- Blog posts 2008-10-10
- News to know: Apple's $800 laptop; MS and Mac Patch Days; Vista Home for business
- Here are today's notable headlines. You can get News To Know via email alert and RSS daily: Ryan Naraine: Mac OS X Patch Day: 40 security flaws fixed MS Patch Tuesday heads-up: 11 bulletins, 4 critical Ed Bott: Look who's buying...
- Tags: Apple Macintosh, Microsoft Windows Vista, Apple Inc., Microsoft Corp., Laptop Computer, H-1B, Notebooks, Human Resources, Labor Relations, Hardware, Notebooks & Tablets, David Grober
- Blog posts 2008-10-10
- "People with strong numerical and problem-solving skills seem to be appreciated by employers"
- Do ya think? That was a key point in a BBC News article on the overall high ranking of US and UK universities worldwide. While the usual suspects (Harvard, Yale, Cambridge, and Oxford, in that order) scored at the top of the "Times Higher Education QS list," an...
- Tags: University, U.K., Operational Accounting, Investment, Finance, Christopher Dawson
- Blog posts 2008-10-09
- Facebook: Revenue plan by 2011; Growth is key for now.
- Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg says he's more focused on growing the social networking site than he is in finding a way to monetize it - at least for now. In a Q&A interview with German blog Netzökonom, Zuckerberg has basically given himself and the company three years to come up...
- Tags: Revenue, Facebook, Mark Zuckerberg, Social Networking, Operational Accounting, Online Communications, Marketing, Advertising & Promotion, Finance, Sam Diaz
- Blog posts 2008-10-09
- Mac OS X Patch Day: 40 security flaws fixed
- Apple has shipped another whopper of a patch to cover a total of 40 documented vulnerabilities affecting the Mac OS X ecosystem. The Security Update 2008-007, available for Tiger and Leopard, covers a range of third-party components and Mac OS X flaws that could users at risk...
- Tags: Apple Macintosh, Vulnerability, Arbitrary Code Execution, Application Termination, Apple Mac OS X, Security, Operating Systems, Software, Apple Mac OS, Ryan Naraine
- Blog posts 2008-10-09
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