A new look at the Classified Advertising Industry
Livedeal ( formerly Yellowpages ) has announced that Livedeal.com and Yellowpages.com have consolidated on to a single technology platform. While this probably means nothing to most consumers since the experience on both Livedeal.com and Yellowpages.com is essentially the same. The big impact w
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Verizon Corporation, provider of personal and business directories in Virginia has settled a long standing accuracy dispute with the State Corporation Commission. The case focused on over 3000 error claims and could result in Verizon paying $2M in penalties to those effected. Yellowpages and oth
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Skype is probably best known as the alternative communication platform that provides low-cost long distance from almost any computer on the planet. When Skype was bought by Ebay in 2005 the plan for Skype in the Ebay empire was anything but clear. In the last 2 years Skype has continued to impro
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In a trend that seems to defy most Web 2.0 companies, Local.com has released the Uk.Local.com from beta. Other online sites, most notably Google Gmail have stayed in beta for years. The Uk.Local.com has also launched with an updated search interface which lets users : Sort results by r
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Hot on the heals of the 2007/2008 print directory launch in Montreal, the Yellow Pages group has launched a light edition for the Calgary market in Canada. It would appear that like the full directory the light edition is being distributed to all homes in Calgary. Also like the full director
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Over the past few weeks Google has been re-evaluating how to they rank different web directories, specifically those that are being used exclusively to get high search engine rank. For years its been a common strategy to get your web site listed into as many web directories as possible and use the
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The Yellowpages Groups in Canada has launched their new 2007/2008 print directory in Montreal. The Yellowpage Pages Group publishes more than 340 annual directories across Canada and runs the industry leading Yellowpages.ca web site. The most interesting aspect of the launch announce is the
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Finditt.com has added Dating to its list of Classified Services. Finditt.com has done reasonably well as a search engine/business directory but has recently been expanding into more of the classified markets. The focus for Finditt.com seems to be on creating small micro-sites for different bus
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White Directory Publishers, a division of Hearst Holding, has partnered with BIAP to become the exclusive sales force for Yellowpages TV listings. BIAP is one of the leading technology companies in the the new interactive TV listings marketing and has created the Yellowpages TV listing services fo
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InfoSpace Inc has sold its Directory Business to Directory Publisher Idearc Inc for a reported $225M USD. The flagship of the Infospace Directory Business, Switchboard.com, was also included in the deal as well as all Yellowpages and Whitepages publishing businesses. Idearc Inc, is itself a new
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While not your typically Classified site but MLS.ca or the Multiple Listing Service cannot be ignored. The MLS.ca site ...
FreeAdLists.com has launched a free classified service worldwide. All classified ads are free and can be placed by geog...
In addition to providing a classified republishing system, Edgeio, has announced that they will provide a paid content d...
