Today at Cupertino, Apple had it’s first post-Jobs era product launch. Apple announced 2 things really. The iPhone 4S and the Siri, Assistant Search. This is a much better phone than the Samsung Charge that I have, but it’s not the “iPhone 5″ that was buzzing around the interwebs. Siri Search, makes use of Yelp’s [...]
The Web and mobile have gone local. One out of every five searches has local intent. One out of every three mobile searches has local intent. So, if you are a local business and you aren’t engaging your connections via mobile, you maybe missing a vital component of your interactive marketing. Here at the SMX [...]
If you don’t know Mike Blumenthal, you don’t know local search. He is one of the brightest minds in the local seo game. He has a direct connection to Carter Maslan, product management director of local search over at Google and therefore, Mike gets the low-down before the rest of us plebes. Anyway, Mike put [...]
Google is taking mobile localization to the next level. They are now leveraging their location based services feature on smart phones w/ Near Me News.
I’ll get straight to the point here. Is it just me, or are there local results showing up for not-so-local searches? At SMX West last week, someone asked Carter Maslan, Director of Product Management for Google Local, about what to do if their business doesn’t have a physical location. Carter sayssss: Don’t create a Places [...]
The latest, greatest version of Apple’s iOS mobile operating system, iOS 4.3, apparently has a hidden easter egg, a new “find my friends” feature, MacRumors has discovered. It seems most likely that Apple is building a geo location-based social network to compete with Foursquare, GoWalla, Google’s Latitude, Facebook Places and the million other startups in the mobile, local, [...]
I was doing some research yesterday on local intent via mobile phones, and I ran across this tweet from Greg Sterling, who is an internet analyst and great thought leader at http://screenwerk.com.
Watching the search landscape evolve these days, I can’t help but think of the real estate agents’ mantra: “It’s all about location, location, location!” The emergence of location-based services, such as Facebook Places, Twitter Places, and Foursquare, is clearly a game-changer on the web. Social networking sites are more locally focused. Online media are now [...]
Are you ready for some liiiiiiveblogging! It may be a rainy Monday but all is right with the world here at SMX East. The next few days will be jam-packed with conference coverage and antics so I hope you’re stocked up on vitamins and coffee. To kick things off we have a killer local panel [...]
Those of us who pay attention to local search, know that newspapers are dying — at least in print form. Business Insider posted this chart mapping the growth and decline of total workers employed by news papers over the 62 years. And while it seems like it could be a banal point, the graphic depiction of [...]
