Home - News - June, 2005

Search Engine Submission Services Are a Scam

June 29, 2005: Source - Search Engine Guide

These (submission) services are completely worthless. And yet they are pushed and pushed hard by huge domain registrars, web hosts, web designers and many other credible web professionals...

Scottie makes a very good point. It's industry knowledge that this stopped working in 1997 (if it even worked then). The average Joe doesn't know this, so credible companies still use submissions as a selling point.

Play It, Google

June 27, 2005: Source - Internet News

Google's Video Upload program asks content creators to include meta data or a transcript with the upload. Google uses the transcript or metadata to index the content.

How does this help local marketing? Authority sites such as Condo Buzz can use this to feature their local condos, such as Minneapolis condo and real estate videos.

MSN Launches Local Search

June 21, 2005: Source - Search Engine Guide

Though not quite ready to launch a full-on assault to Google's nifty satellite view, MSN pushed into the local search market yesterday with a beta version of its new local search engine.

Let Your Fingers Do The Clicking

Week of June 20, 2005: Source - Business Week

..."We're going to be just as big as Google Local or Yahoo Local"...

Ok.

...What the phone companies do have in their favor is feet on the street. Their thousands of sales reps pound the pavement in towns where Google and Yahoo merely float in the ether...

The Local Search Mardi Gras

June 09, 2005: Source - ClickZ

...It's a mistake to discuss local search without distinguishing innovation from adoption. The innovation that fuels local search hype operates far beyond the realities of small business adoption. This innovation leads to instability and fragmentation in a nascent segment of the Internet marketplace...

Mainstream suppliers are selling local search. Are local accountants and coffee shops accepting it yet?

YellowPages.com to List on AOL

June 08, 2005: Source - InternetNews.com

..."We're committed to providing AOL audiences with the very best in local search and directory products, and we're pleased to bring the YellowPages.com advertiser content portfolio to our popular brands and services," said Jim Riesenbach"...

Local search targets local ad revenues

June 05, 2005: Source - Pandia

"Newspapers and offline yellow page directories have traditionally been the mainstay of local advertising. That might be about to change as local search becomes the latest business opportunity to be exploited online."

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