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Search Engine Watch
November 29, 2007
Kevin Newcomb |
Citysearch Looks to MerchantCircle to Complete Picture Citysearch expanded its reach to small business advertisers and added small business content to its local guides through a deal with MerchantCircle   |
InternetNews
April 25, 2007
Nicholas Carlson |
New 'Killer Diller' Protege Steps Up Jim Safka, former CEO of IAC property Match.com, has been named CEO of a new IAC-owned venture to identify new business opportunities. |
InternetNews
February 15, 2008
Kenneth Corbin |
AOL, Citysearch Ally Over Ads With AOL's business under increasing scrutiny, the online media pioneer has signed a deal with Citysearch to strengthen its local ad sales. |
Search Engine Watch
January 11, 2007
Kevin Newcomb |
Social Features Key to Yahoo Local Yahoo has recently been putting more of an emphasis on social media and user-generated content in its local search product. |
Search Engine Watch
February 25, 2011
Jon Schepke |
Ratings & Reviews: 5 Strategies for Local Businesses Ratings and reviews are essential to local businesses. They help by differentiating products and services, improving search engine rankings, and driving free web traffic. |
InternetNews
August 15, 2007
Nicholas Carlson |
Yahoo Makes Local Search Personal Yahoo upgraded its local search product today, turning it from a place where users get maps and driving directions to a community-specific portal. |
Entrepreneur
August 2005
Chris McGinnis |
Seeing Stars Get hotel ratings from people who have actually stayed there. These Web sites offer honest hotel reviews from real travelers like you. |
InternetNews
March 20, 2009
David Needle |
Citysearch Gets More Social Pioneering online listing site gets 'hyper-local' and adds mobile services. |
PC World
May 2003
Michael Gowan |
Public Opinions: Inside User Reviews All over the Web, all kinds of people write real-world reviews of tech products. Can you rely on them? Here's the straight scoop. |
Search Engine Watch
July 8, 2008
Carrie Hill |
Local Search for Little Biz Luckily for small business owners, there are steps they can take to influence many of the factors that positively affect local search rankings. |
Search Engine Watch
November 20, 2003
Danny Sullivan |
Local Search Part 5: Citysearch Brings Local To Searchers & Merchants Citysearch has long offered local content to searchers. But the company has made new moves to bring local merchants into the world of search advertising by introducing a cost-per-lead program. |
The Motley Fool
May 2, 2006
Tom Taulli |
Yahoo! Talks Tech The search giant's newest offering, Yahoo! Tech, lures gadget lovers. With Yahoo! earning most of its money from advertising, tech product companies are likely to get a lot of traction on the site. |
InternetNews
November 11, 2005
Susan Kuchinskas |
Amazon Gets Patents on Consumer Reviews Amazon was awarded three new patents, covering its purchase circles, search and consumer reviews. |
The Motley Fool
March 21, 2005
Tom Taulli |
Jeeves Retires a Billionaire Whereas "synergies" are often elusive (read: nonexistent) in M&A, they may not be with the IAC/AskJeeves combination. |
BusinessWeek
October 13, 2003
Timothy J. Mullaney |
How Diller Can Win Over Wall Street Three moves to bolster InterActiveCorp's stock |
Search Engine Watch
July 11, 2005
Chris Sherman |
Local Search, From Locals Online yellow pages are great for finding nearby businesses, but nothing beats a recommendation from a local in making a decision to patronize a business. Judy's Book is a site that's blending the ideas of local search and social networks. |
Search Engine Watch
October 25, 2005
Shari Thurow |
Shopping Search and Merchant Reputations Consumers often look to merchant reputations on shopping search engines when deciding to make a purchase. But who determines these reputations? And can you trust them? |
InternetNews
January 3, 2007
Nicholas Carlson |
Dash a Yahoo Search in The Driver's Seat Thanks to Yahoo's partnership with Dash Navigation, you can now have Yahoo Local search in your car. |
The Motley Fool
December 18, 2009
Rick Aristotle Munarriz |
Google's Cry for Yelp TechCrunch reports that Google is in negotiations to snap up Web 2.0 darling Yelp.com, in a deal worth $500 million or more. |
InternetNews
October 4, 2006
Nicholas Carlson |
Yahoo Ads in Your Pocket Yahoo announced the beta launch of sponsored search results for its Mobile Web service. |
Fast Company
May 2009
Anya Kamenetz |
Update Small business owners have claimed that soon after they got negative reviews on Yelp, a sales rep from the site would call and offer to eliminate the one-star ratings. |
InternetNews
November 30, 2007
Kenneth Corbin |
Online Reviews Drive Offline Sales A new study reports that the online ratings consumers give products and services have a direct impact on people's offline purchasing decisions. |
The Motley Fool
May 14, 2007
Rick Aristotle Munarriz |
Amazon Zooms In Amazon.com takes a bigger role in digital photography with the acquisition of DPReview.com. |
InternetNews
December 21, 2004
Colin C. Haley |
Diller's IAC Spinning Off Expedia InterActiveCorp plans to spin-out Expedia and its other travel-related sites as a separate company next year |
Search Engine Watch
August 4, 2004
Gary Price |
Ask Jeeves Goes Local, Adds New Smart Search Features Ask Jeeves has announced a new exclusive partnership with local search and content provider CitySearch, and added new search shortcuts. |
InternetNews
November 15, 2005
Susan Kuchinskas |
Social Shopping at Yahoo Yahoo Shopping introduced the Shoposphere in time for the holiday shopping season. It aims to be a world where users connect and link in multiple ways. |
InternetNews
March 21, 2005
Clint Boulton |
IAC to Buy Ask Jeeves for $1.85B IAC/InterActiveCorp agrees to acquire Ask Jeeves in a deal that puts it squarely into competition with Google, Yahoo and Microsoft. |
The Motley Fool
December 21, 2004
Alyce Lomax |
Expedia Flies Away Investors seem eager to let the untangling begin as InterActiveCorp. plans to spin off the travel-oriented areas of business into a publicly traded company that will be known by the name of one its most well-known brands, Expedia. |
InternetNews
April 25, 2006
Nicholas Carlson |
Ask Loses CEO to Microsoft Following Jeeves the butler out the door, Ask.com CEO Steve Berkowitz is headed to Microsoft. |
The Motley Fool
March 1, 2005
Seth Jayson |
InterActive Keeps Eating InterActiveCorp has added another slew of businesses to its well-stocked stable. The Street's reaction is muted, but investors might be wise to give IAC the benefit of the doubt here. |
The Motley Fool
April 30, 2007
Rick Aristotle Munarriz |
Yahoo! Makes the Right Decision Yahoo! buys an online ad exchange to boost its visibility. Yahoo! shareholders don't need their company to overtake Google to win. Investors, take note. |
Search Engine Watch
December 12, 2008
Gregg Stewart |
User Ratings and Reviews: Join the Conversation Consumer usage of ratings and reviews continues to grow, as well as their importance to everyday local business information. Word-of-mouth marketing is one of the most effective ways to sell a product/service, and that's exactly what consumer reviews provide online. |
Entrepreneur
August 2003
Melissa Campanelli |
The Ratings Game Many sites allow visitors to review and rate the products they're selling. Should you follow suit? |
PC Magazine
January 10, 2007 |
Wired, Don't Quit Your Day Job A few products that differed in reviews between Wired magazine and this one. |
The Motley Fool
November 2, 2006
Emil Lee |
Why I'm Holding InterActiveCorp The online middleman has powerful network advantages and sturdy cash flow. Value investors rarely find great businesses trading at reasonable valuations -- but this one is. |
The Motley Fool
March 8, 2007
Emil Lee |
IAC/InterActiveCorp Increases Interactivity The company continues to mold its cornucopia of Web properties. Investors, this company is run to maximize long-term cash flow and was built with a vision of synergy and of digging a substantial economic moat. |
InternetNews
August 3, 2004
Parker & Rodgers |
Yahoo!, Ask Jeeves Bow Local Search Tools The news follows closely on the heels Google's own local Web search offering. |
The Motley Fool
April 12, 2006
Alyce Lomax |
Globe-Trotting With Yahoo! The Internet giant enhances its conventional search for enhanced travel results. |
Information Today
December 2006
Paula J. Hane |
New AskCity Integrates Local Content, Technology, and Tools Ask.com, which has struggled for a share of the Web search market in the face of Google dominance, is hoping to make its mark in providing local search information. |
Search Engine Watch
March 20, 2011
Dean Stephens |
Healthy Local Search The health industry has realized that local search marketing can have great benefits. An overview of health-related tools, directory and review sites, and location-based services. |
The Motley Fool
May 5, 2005
Rick Aristotle Munarriz |
The Puzzle Pieces Fit Online real estate aggregator IAC's numbers beat the market, but it still can't buy the respect it has earned. |
Entrepreneur
May 2008
Gwen Moran |
Close to Home Make the most of local search - and watch your sales soar. |
The Motley Fool
February 27, 2008
Anders Bylund |
A Brain Boost for Yahoo! Search Yahoo's latest improvement is an open platform for sharing extra information with Yahoo!'s search engine, providing searchers with rich results incorporating all kinds of useful information. |
The Motley Fool
May 15, 2008
Rick Aristotle Munarriz |
IAC Looks It Up IAC buys the parent company behind Dictionary.com. |
The Motley Fool
August 1, 2006
Rick Aristotle Munarriz |
Fill Us, Diller InterActiveCorp produces another solid, yet sadly misunderstood, quarter. Investors, take note. |
InternetNews
January 10, 2008
Kenneth Corbin |
Ask.com Shuffles Its Executive Deck In advance of a major reorganization at IAC/InterActive Corp., Ask.com has announced a shakeup of its top executives. |
The Motley Fool
August 3, 2005
Jeff Hwang |
IAC's Q2 Previews Life After Separation InterActiveCorp posts a solid second quarter ahead of its spin-off of Expedia as a stand-alone business. Investors got a sneak peek at life after separation as both IAC and Expedia reported second-quarter results individually. |
The Motley Fool
February 26, 2008
Rick Aristotle Munarriz |
Buzz Kill at Yahoo! Yahoo!'s new social news site, Buzz, has nothing wrong with it, but it's a crystalline example of why the company is going in circles these days. |
InternetNews
July 13, 2009 |
Ask.com Is Still at Your Service The famous AskJeeves butler is long gone, but Ask.com is holding its own in the competitive search game. |
CRM
December 2011
Donna Fluss |
Using Social Media for Customer Service Is a Strategic Imperative Protect and enhance your company's image. |
