Posts Tagged ‘yellowpages.com’

Next to online directories, there are a number of local search platforms and mobiles apps that help users find businesses and service providers in their vicinity. “Because the local data from each of the services usually comes from the same sources, one can assume that they also deliver results in a similar manner,” concludes Greg Sterling from Searchengineland. But he wanted to know for sure and hired Implied Intelligence to review the completeness and the accuracy of the results from the leading local search services in the USA. Read the rest of this entry »

Using social media outlets as a way to draw in customers has pretty much become mandatory for even directories worldwide. Directories, local search engines, rating portals – they’ve all got the social media fever. An interesting example is the Herold in Austria, who introduced the Facebook application “Locations ilike”. Users don’t only have the capability to search, find, and save favorite locations, but can also rate them and share them with friends. Read the rest of this entry »