Peter Krasilovsky's

Local Onliner

Apr 15
2010

‘Garage Sales Tracker’ Teams with Community Paper Sites

There was a time when it looked like eBay would replace garage sales – or the Goodwill box. But putting things up for sale was probably too much work. In fact, garage sale postings in 2009 were up 80 percent on Craigslist last year. Craigslist, Oodle and PennySaver have been among the leaders in online …continue reading »

Categories: Classifieds, Google, TV/Radio

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Jul 10
2009

Localeze ‘Confidence Scores’ Addresses SMB Spam

There’s too much “noise” with SMB information, and no one knows which businesses have up-to-date and fully populated information. Many SMBs, for instance, will have two or more sets of profiles, featuring different types of information. Think, for instance, of all the directory sites asking SMBs to “claim” their listing. The frequent result is a …continue reading »

Categories: Google, Local Search, Mapping

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Apr 15
2009

Wedding Mapper Provides Customized Maps, Targeted Ads

Selling advertising on customized Google Maps is becoming increasingly common, with agencies such as LAT49 showing the way. Ads have been sold on maps for hiking, jogging trails, local transit and other categories. Now Wedding Mapper is taking the same concept to weddings, where it allows couples to map out a wedding trail of airports, …continue reading »

Categories: Google, Mapping, Verticals, Yellow Pages

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Jun 6
2008

MetroSeeQ Launches: ‘Search Engine for Promotions’ (via Google Maps)

Consumers looking to map out a Saturday morning errand run, or a Saturday night bar-hop – and find out about any special offers along the way—can now do so easily via MetroSeeq, a Portland, OR startup by Intel-vet Kevin Chen.The site was launched two weeks ago, and has already had 40,000 visitors. Chen said he …continue reading »

Categories: Google, Mapping, Shopping/Transactions

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