Ask.com Launches Local Search
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The search company debuts AskCity, a local search and mapping tool that lets users find neighborhood hangouts and generate custom maps, then use other web services to make reservations, buy tickets or invite friends to mingle. In Monkey Bites.
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Users can search by file format, size, and duration.
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Microsoft&#39;s new search engine includes a &quot;near me&quot; button that helps users find sites for a given location and a feature that answers questions such as &quot;What is the capital of Turkey?
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Ask Jeeves today becomes the latest search engine to join the battle to organize the disparate information spread across users&#39; computers.
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Portal tries out feature for its popular Yahoo Answers search engine.
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Ask Jeeves has joined the throng of search giants offering their services on your desktop with its own desktop search tool. The beta is a free download from http://download.
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Lisa Barone, super search blogger, has the beef on Ask.com&#8217;s search interface  &#038; user experience testing ground, Ask X.  Google has its SearchMash to test new Ajax and Java powered search tools, and now Ask has Ask X.  And Lisa has this to say about Ask X: The difference between Ask X and Google&#8217;s SearchMash [...]
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Amazon.com Inc. launched a local Internet search service on Wednesday that allows users to virtually walk streets and see photos of businesses, a move that could help it better compete with established search providers such as Google Inc.
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Links to the week's topics from search engine forums across the web: TrueLocal Launches Canadian Local Search Engine - The Video Void: Where Are All The AdSense Video Ads? - Here Comes Social Media Optimization? - Google Apps for Your Domain, and more.
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Ask.com became the first major search engine to promise users it won't store data on their queries, giving the privacy conscious the option of conducting research on the Internet in relative anonymity.
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Google has launched a new feature that tries to guess what users are looking for as they type queries into its search box. Google Suggest was quietly launched this week in the company&#39;s Labs site, which showcases
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Hoping to emerge from the shadow of its more popular rivals, Ask Jeeves Inc. is adding new tools for visitors to save and organize links to Web pages they find through the company's online search engine.
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Human-powered search site morphs into search for mobile users.
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Ask JeevesÂ will launch a test version of its desktop search tool on Wednesday, following the launch of similar tools by rivals MicrosoftÂ on Monday and GoogleÂ  in October, and ahead of expected entries from America OnlineÂ (AOL) and Yahoo.
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Search Engine Strategies Local in Denver I like to shake people up these days by saying that &#8220;most of what&#8217;s actually going on online is about local.&#8221; People often greet that remark as though I&#8217;m under the influence of some mind-altering substance. But it&#8217;s true: Jobs, Cars, Real Estate, travel-related research, events and entertainment, offline buying [...]
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Blog: Company kicks off its Search Suggest feature, designed to save users time by offering search suggestions on which they can click.
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(InfoWorld) - Almost three months afterÂ a major overhaul of Ask.com's local search engine, IAC/InterActiveCorp is again moving to improve its offerings in this popular search segment by acquiring Insider Pages, a city guide with hundreds of thousands of user reviews of local businesses. Insider Pages, founded in 2004 and with more than 600,000 merchant reviews and 2 million monthly unique users, will become part of Citysearch, a similar city guide that, like Ask.com, is owned by IAC. Between the two, Citysearch and Insider Pages have more than 1 million reviews as well as listings of local businesses in more than 500 categories and in every U.S. Zip Code, IAC announced Thursday. For now, Insider Pages will continue operating its own site, and Citysearch will incorporate Insider Pages material that it considers complementary to its guide, a Citysearch official said. A similar evaluation process regarding Insider Pages material will take place for Ask.com's AskCity local search engine. In other words, neither Citysearch, which has about 13 million unique users per month, nor AskCity will automatically ingest all of Insider Pages' content, said Dinesh Moorjani, Citysearch's vice president of strategy and corporate development. After its overhaul in December, AskCity gained access to material from a variety of IAC-owned properties, including Citysearch. Local search has become a highly popular search segment for both advertisers and end-users. Typically, local search engines contain maps, offer driving directions, provide business listings and reviews, give traffic information, and display information about events. Advertising revenue in local search is expected to grow from $3.4 billion in 2005 to $13 billion in 2010, according to The Kelsey Group. In July of last year, 63 percent of U.S. Internet users, or about 109 million people at the time, conducted a local search, up 45 percent compared with July 2005, according to comScore Networks. Google led with 29.8 percent of queries, closely followed by Yahoo with 29.2 percent. Ask.com ranked in seventh place with 2.7 percent of queries. IAC didn't disclose the financial details of the Insider Pages acquisition, which has already closed. Â