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September 2
2010

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Yahoo Localizes Suggestions, Engines Align For The Next Five Years

Yahoo has added more geographically relevant suggestions to its Search Assist drop-down:

The thing is, everyone has something comparable:

With the new, expanded Google-AOL deal, we now have four of the five big search engines (sans Ask) aligned in two camps: Google-AOL vs. Yahoo-Bing, with AOL and Yahoo the proxies of the bigger companies behind them.

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2 Responses to “Yahoo Localizes Suggestions, Engines Align For The Next Five Years”

  1. Martin says at
    September 3rd, 2010 at 12:31 pm

    Any plans to merge Yahoo local and/or maps with Bing’s?

  2. Greg Sterling says at
    September 3rd, 2010 at 12:37 pm

    Martin:

    Yahoo did a deal with Nokia for Maps. So Ovi Maps will power Yahoo Maps in mobile and on the PC presumably. No Bing Maps as far as I know. However the local listings in the search index will be Bing’s to my knowledge.

    I don’t think Yahoo is going to maintain its own database for local. But I’ll investigate.

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    September 3rd, 2010 at 7:55 pm

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