Will rising gas prices fuel local search?
Rising gas prices may fuel local search and local business. Your small business can use this as an opportunity to win using local search.
Does adoption of mobile data plans signal growth of the mobile web?
What's it going to take for the mobile web to catch on? Om Malik gives a view of the underlying business of mobile data vs. the mobile web. Well worth…
Fred Wilson: Why Google will own the mobile, local web
Is the picture of the mobile, local web (the backyard web) beginning to take shape? With over 3 billion mobile phones in consumers' hands and with increasing access to valuable mobile services, like Google's new geolocation services , it seems likely consumers will start expecting tools like these.
Is local marketing strong in all channels?
It sure looks like it. SearchEngineLand notes, "As US Economy Weakens, Ad Spend Steady Online But Drops In Traditional Media." The most telling quote: "One bright spot for TV was…
Superpages buys LocalSearch.com. The Backyard Web grows…
SearchEngineLand reports Idearc Media - the publisher of Verizon's phone books , and the owner of Superpages.com - acquired the domain LocalSearch.com and have made a "...strategic investment in AmericanTowns.com."…