Are you ready for local search? (Small Business E-Commerce Link Digest)
Use of local search continues to grow. This week's links look at trends worth watching.
Will rising gas prices fuel local search?
Rising gas prices may fuel local search and local business. Your small business can use this as an opportunity to win using local search.
The local, mobile search market huge and growing…
The numbers projected for mobile search - critical to local marketers - are staggering. One estimate projects local companies will spend $5 billion (US) in 2008, while another estimates 55…
Superpages buys LocalSearch.com. The Backyard Web grows…
SearchEngineLand reports Idearc Media - the publisher of Verizon's phone books , and the owner of Superpages.com - acquired the domain LocalSearch.com and have made a "...strategic investment in AmericanTowns.com."…
Advertising Age: “Americans Use Cellphones for, Well, Calling.” Or maybe not…
OK, so the US lags other countries in use of the mobile web. Still, the flip side is that 35% of US mobile usage is for something other than calls…