Archive for the ‘New Search Machine Interest’ Category

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 »

As announced at the end of February by Groupon is now becoming reality: in the first half of 2012, the location-based group discount service will be introducing new deals in Europe, this including Germany, as quoted by Groupon founder and chief Andrew Mason in Wirtschaftswoche. 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 »

“The next generation of mobile local search” is how Telegate describes its new apps specially developed for the iPad for its two local-search services klickTel and 11880.com. The new mobile applications completely use the capabilities of the Apple tablets: users not only have access to 28 million private and business addresses in from the Telegate directory, but can also find various multimedia content such as photos and videos for service providers. In addition, the menus for the klickTel and the 11880.com apps can be individually customized on the iPad. Read the rest of this entry »

Just about three weeks ago, the geo-location service Foursquare launched its “Explore” feature for the online version, offering users personalized, location-based recommendations for various businesses all over the world. Now the service has updated its mobile application, bringing many of these “Explore” features to the iPhone and Android smartphones. Read the rest of this entry »

The free mobile local search application from Das Telefonbuch for Android smartphones has been updated with a full navigation system. Users can immediately begin to search for business and private contacts throughout Germany, as well as use the full navigation for any place within Germany, Austria, and Switzerland with the updated 2.0 version of the app. iPhone users have had this possibility for about half a year now. Read the rest of this entry »

After two years, Microsoft has finally ended the test phase of the German search engine Bing. From the end of January, users have been able to use all features as well as those provided by the local search service Bing Maps. Read the rest of this entry »

The location-based check in service Foursquare recently expanded its “Explore” feature to its web-based version, providing users with personalized recommendations for bars, museums, or other locations. Now users can also look at the menu of about 250,000 restaurants in the largest cities of the US. The data is provided by the startup SinglePlatform, according to the company blog.
The menus will be available for the desktop feature Explore, on foursquare.com, and on m.foursquare.com, and app integration is on the way. In addition to the various meals served at restaurants, some also display prices.

With the desktop application click.to, users can conduct a local search with suchen.de directly from documents, short messages from Twitter, Facebook & Co., emails, and other desktop applications. This is made possible through a cooperation between Axonic Informationssysteme GmbH, click.to’s developers, and Searchteq GmbH, suchen.de’s developer. Read the rest of this entry »

As Google receives a good deal of critique for its new personalized internet search, Foursquare has been receiving much positive feedback from its users for its similar direction. The geolocation service has released its “Explore” service, which was previously available on the mobile application, online. Users can immediately begin to discover personally recommended places all over the world under foursquare.com/explore. Read the rest of this entry »