Peter Krasilovsky's

Local Onliner

Feb 4
2010

Gannett’s Planet Discover Launches FinditNow

Gannett has always seemed to be a likely directory player. In fact, the world’s largest newspaper publisher owns a small group of print directories. It also provides a white-labelled online directory product to its media properties. But as directories, search and user generated content have become more commingled, Gannett has gone a step further with …continue reading »

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Aug 19
2009

Web.com, MerchantCircle to Market Each Other’s SMB Services

Web.com and MerchantCircle are teaming up to leverage Web.com’s appeal as a provider of “premium” SMB services, and MerchantCircle’s appeal as an introductory-level provider of SMB services that is more oriented towards building traffic and selling advertising. Web.com is a publicly-owned SMB marketing giant that includes premium Website development and search engine marketing via its …continue reading »

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Jun 30
2009

Quantcast Publishes ‘Top 10′ Online Directories

Figuring out who is on top of the heap in the online directory business is a complex task: on one hand, a “directory” category is kind of an oxymoron, given that so much of what is quantified is based on search engine optimization. Only 25 percent of Citysearch’s traffic, for instance, comes from its destination …continue reading »

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