Posts tagged Local Search
Is Google about to gobble up Yelp?
Dec 18th
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Google is in the advanced stages of a bid to acquire Yelp for more than half a billion dollars, according to a report in TechCrunch. The acquisition of the popular review site would advance Google’s position in the local search marketplace considerably, given Yelp’s devoted following in metropolitan areas across the U.S. and deep [...]
Q & A with Google VP Marissa Mayer on the future of search
Dec 9th
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Marissa Mayer, Google’s vice president of search and user experience is on-stage at the Le Web conference in Paris. I’m live-blogging as we go:
Michael Arrington asks about the search announcements earlier this week (namely Google Goggles, local search and real-time search).
Mayer: We think of search as having four main components. Modalities — how [...]
