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Local Onliner

Jan 12
2011

Goby: Go Mobile (and Go Social,) Event Marketers

Local consumers are looking beyond pure search when they are looking for family fun. That’s the unmet need that Boston-based Goby.com is trying to meet in its 350 category, events and family fun search site. The site is now reaching 500,000 unique visitors a month — double the number from our prior writeup of the …continue reading »

Categories: Google, Verticals

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Mar 15
2010

Goby.com: Search Engine Focuses on Local Events + Travel

Events are a vertical that cuts across many segments: travel, retail, sports, entertainment, education, dining, culture and others. Major players include specialists such as Zvents, Eventful, Americantowns.com and Center’d. City sites such as Citysearch and Yelp are active in the space as well. A new one for us is Goby.com, a venture-backed firm that comes …continue reading »

Categories: Google, Local Search, Shopping/Transactions, Verticals

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May 27
2008

Technology and My Trip to London and Paris

Travelling abroad and keeping your job is pretty easy these days with seamless smartphone access. But I noticed a few things during a trip to London and Paris last week that gave me some food for thought. London • The prepaid “Oyster” cards for public transport make it fun to hop on a bus or …continue reading »

Categories: Google, Mobile, Newspapers, Sales Channels, Shopping/Transactions, Video, Yellow Pages

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May 6
2008

AOL Reinvesting in Local Products

AOL may have trouble on several fronts, but it still gets millions of users and it intends to fully leverage them at the local level, per Chris Spanos, Director of Search Verticals, who was speaking at Kelsey Seattle. “Given its scale, local just hasn’t been getting fair share.” Spanos says the local products will be …continue reading »

Categories: Google, Mapping, Shopping/Transactions, Verticals, Yellow Pages

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