SEW Experts: Local Search: Competing All Over the Map – Part 2
While Google, Yahoo, and Microsoft battle for online mapping domination, another competitor is fortifying its position quietly off to the side. In today’s Vertical Challenge column, “Local Search: Competing All Over the Map – Part 2,” local search expert Michael Boland looks at EveryScape, a new 3-D mapping beta site from MapQuest that could change [...]
SEW Experts: Local Search: Competing All Over the Map
Google Maps, launched with AJAX functionality, draggable maps, and satellite imagery in late 2005, started an “arms race” in development of new features and functionality. In today’s Vertical Challenge column, “Local Search: Competing All Over the Map,” local search expert Michael Boland looks at the many ways competitors have raised the bar with real-time traffic [...]
Microsoft Breaks Out New Live Search Tools
Maps, local, and mobile services all figured in Microsoft’s latest updates to their Live Search product, following their work on the entertainment, health, and shopping search verticals.Microsoft has a 411 phone number just like Google now. People can dial 1-800-LIVE-411 for local business information. That service draws upon Microsoft’s Tellme acquisition, which drives the local [...]
Ask Not What Your Marketing Can Do For You…
Ask.com has seen brighter days. It’s one thing when nobody thinks you can compete with Google (Yahoo and MSN have yet to accomplish that), but it’s quite another to lose continually despite all efforts. The algorithm may have killed Jeeves, but that may have been a bad idea. (Technically, Jeeves is encased in carbonite. We [...]
Microsoft, Google Chart New Map Views
Google Maps and Microsoft Live Search Maps released new ways of looking at the world through their products at the Where 2.0 conference.3-D looks at the Big Apple and street views of Miami were two of the big announcements at Where 2.0 in San Jose. Microsoft and Google each attempted to out-splash the other with [...]
Google Maps Enlists Robot Car
Those who worry about Google’s impending world domination are probably going to be terrified, but for the rest of us, this is just neat: the search engine giant has made a deal that involves Stanley, the robot car that won the 2005 DARPA Grand Challenge. “Google has quietly licensed the sensing technology developed by a [...]
Google Earth To Showcase Beautiful Buildings
Architecture is one of those subjects that appeals, on some level, to just about everybody; from your basic suburban house to St. Basil’s Cathedral, it’s just too entwined in our lives to go unnoticed. Now architecture is being noticed by Google Earth – The American Institute of Architects (AIA) has helped design two new 3D [...]
Google To Create Its Own Virtual World?
Google Earth has become a very popular application among users wanting to explore various parts of the glob via satellite imagery. Rumors are now circulation that Google is looking to take its technology a step further and implement facets of Google Earth in a project aimed a creating a virtual environment, much like that of [...]
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