Archive for the ‘Local Search Engines’ Category

About a month after the free mobile iPad applications for the two local search engines 11880.com and klickTel were released, their operator Telegate AG, has already updated them. The latest release has made the iPad apps into mobile city-guides, promises Kristin Bergmann in the Telegate blog. Read the rest of this entry »

The mobile local search app from Das Telefonbuch for the iPhone was updated recently and can be downloaded in the App Store. The 3.40 version offers several improvements and new features: the layout of the standard, vicinity, and expanded search has a new search screen. This leads to quicker results, according to the company. In addition, users can find addition information, such as location, website and additional company information with one click under the individual results. The results will not display special top- and standard-results, according to the PR manager Silke Greifsmühlen. Read the rest of this entry »

The latest version of the free mobile application for the city portal meinestadt.de for the Windows Phone 7 (WP7) now offers additional local information and functions in addition to contact data from restaurants, hotels, shops and other service providers as well as event information and movie times: the update now provides the new categories “Transit Stops” and “Local News”, as well as a telephone book search, as with the apps for the iPhone and Android smartphones. Read the rest of this entry »

The paid local search iPhone app Where To? has promised Telekom cellular customers even more fun: the augmented reality function “Where To? 3-D is now free. For other users, a fee of 0.79 Euros will be charged after a 30-day free trial. The chief executive officer of the carrier, FutureTap’s Ortwin Gentz, alerted us of this. To use the 3-D feature, users simply have to move the iPhone’s lens – locations in the vicinity will begin to appear in the camera’s image. Read the rest of this entry »

The free mobile application from Gelbe Seiten has passed the one-million download mark, according to the company. Local search has changed dramatically in the past years. Next to the printed directory, which is approximately used 1.7 million times per day, search conducted online and especially using mobile devices has become a day-to-day normality, according to Stephan Theiss, CEO at Gelbe Seiten Marketing GmbH. Read the rest of this entry »

The local search engine Google Maps has now added traffic information to its route planner. Those planning a trip using Google Maps to get from point A to point B will receive the estimated arrival time based on current traffic conditions. With the new feature, it is easy for users to decide whether they should go by car, public transportation, by bike or by foot to get to their destination as quickly as possible. Read the rest of this entry »

The search engine giant has improved the 3D design of more than a thousand landmarks and tourist attractions in its local service Google Maps. With this, the digital map can be easily compared to the physical landscape, explains Paul Messmer, a software developer of the company, in the Google Latlong Blog. It is a part of Google’s effort to make Google Maps as accurate and useful as possible. Read the rest of this entry »

Inspired by the idea of what the were missing in their own neighborhood, Florian Eisenmangel, Simon Jacobs and Maximilian Stelzl have developed a new platform: with Spoovel.com, the start-up aims to give a meeting point for all deals, sales promotions, events, and all small and big things in the neighborhood for users and retailers to meet, according to the site. Read the rest of this entry »

Snipon.de, which launched last year in October, has now ended ist Beta phase. What makes this portal so special: users can search for local deals offered by local businesses as well as trans-regional deals in online shops. In addition, prices from various dealers can be compared so that users can find the cheapest provider. Read the rest of this entry »

Already 85 percent of consumers use the internet to search for local businesses, 16 percent of all users every week. This is one of the results of the current “Local Consumer Review Survey 2012″. Additional findings of the survey: consumer trust in online customer ratings has raised by ten percent in the past two years. About 72 percent of the surveyed found online as well as personal recommendations to be important, according to Myles Anderson, founder and chief of BrightLocal.com, a company specializing in local marketing, which conducted the survey on Searchengineland. Read the rest of this entry »