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Local Onliner

Nov 23
2010

Local Sites Prep for Black Friday, SMB Saturday, Cyber Monday

The hordes of shoppers who still enjoy standing in lines and fighting for parking spaces, on the “Black Friday” after Thanksgiving is an offline event. Or is it? Local sites are prepping shoppers who want to see what’s available at the stores, including The Deal Map, Milo.com, Local.com and SuperPages. Other local media companies, including …continue reading »

Categories: Shopping/Transactions

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Jul 23
2009

AT&T Launches YP.com as Webby Complement to Yellowpages.com

AT&T Interactive today launched a beta version of YP.com, a website that won’t be heavily promoted but will add cutting edge features to searches, such as expandable local maps in results, aggregated SMB content, and videos, coupons and other promotions. AT&T bought the URL for $3.85 million from LiveDeal in January 2009. A company blog …continue reading »

Categories: Local Search, Verticals, Video, Yahoo, Yellow Pages

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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 »

Categories: Classifieds, Local Search, Research, Yellow Pages

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Apr 21
2009

Citysearch In Separate Deals With YellowPages.com, SuperPages.com

Citysearch’s strategy of winning wider distribution for its user reviews, editorial content and business profiles “and living wherever consumers want to be” has becoming closer to reality as it has announced back-to-back partnerships with Idearc’s SuperPages.com and AT&T Interactive’s YellowPages.com. The deals reinforce an earlier deal announced last month with MySpace. While the business relationship …continue reading »

Categories: Local Search, Sales Channels, Yellow Pages

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Sep 17
2008

DMS ’08 Keynote: Briggs Ferguson, President, Idearc Internet

Former Citysearch President Briggs Ferguson, who took the helm at Idearc Internet and its Superpages.com flagship about five months ago, said during a keynote at Kelsey’s DMS show in Atlanta that he sees tremendous potential for the Yellow Pages industry. “It should be much bigger than it is today. At the very least, we get …continue reading »

Categories: Conferences, Local Search, Mapping, Yellow Pages

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