Comments on: Metromela.com Ties Up With Google Local Search http://www.watblog.com/2008/06/17/metromelacom-ties-up-with-google-local-search/ The Refreshing Blog on Web, Advertising and Technology in India! Wed, 07 Jan 2009 18:51:33 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.5.1 By: Pankaj Joshi http://www.watblog.com/2008/06/17/metromelacom-ties-up-with-google-local-search/#comment-8198 Pankaj Joshi Wed, 18 Jun 2008 05:58:44 +0000 http://www.watblog.com/2008/06/17/metromelacom-ties-up-with-google-local-search/#comment-8198 Hi Harshil, Our magazine has been a good story and an extension of our online brand. We have tied up with barista, spencers, Qmart and few other strategic places for distribution. We do a circulation of about 15000 copies in hyderabad. Our magazine also goes to quite a few corporates. Magazine helps us showcase our content richness and helps us connect with our target customers online and offline. Hi Harshil,

Our magazine has been a good story and an extension of our online brand. We have tied up with barista, spencers, Qmart and few other strategic places for distribution. We do a circulation of about 15000 copies in hyderabad. Our magazine also goes to quite a few corporates. Magazine helps us showcase our content richness and helps us connect with our target customers online and offline.

]]> By: Harshil Karia http://www.watblog.com/2008/06/17/metromelacom-ties-up-with-google-local-search/#comment-8162 Harshil Karia Tue, 17 Jun 2008 07:07:57 +0000 http://www.watblog.com/2008/06/17/metromelacom-ties-up-with-google-local-search/#comment-8162 @ Pankaj - thanks - didnt really notice that. Smart offline + online integration by Metromela btw. Care to share a few results? @ Pankaj - thanks - didnt really notice that. Smart offline + online integration by Metromela btw. Care to share a few results?

]]> By: Pankaj Joshi http://www.watblog.com/2008/06/17/metromelacom-ties-up-with-google-local-search/#comment-8155 Pankaj Joshi Tue, 17 Jun 2008 06:40:00 +0000 http://www.watblog.com/2008/06/17/metromelacom-ties-up-with-google-local-search/#comment-8155 To search for pizza in different locations of the city, type search in the box and hit go. In the result page you will ahve option to filter the results based on category, location, stores having deals and stores having reviews. maybe we should give location option in the first page itself, but since we wanted to give users a few more filtering options we have put all of them as part of result page. Thanks for the feedback. Pankaj To search for pizza in different locations of the city, type search in the box and hit go. In the result page you will ahve option to filter the results based on category, location, stores having deals and stores having reviews.

maybe we should give location option in the first page itself, but since we wanted to give users a few more filtering options we have put all of them as part of result page. Thanks for the feedback.

Pankaj

]]> By: Harshil Karia http://www.watblog.com/2008/06/17/metromelacom-ties-up-with-google-local-search/#comment-8154 Harshil Karia Tue, 17 Jun 2008 06:17:42 +0000 http://www.watblog.com/2008/06/17/metromelacom-ties-up-with-google-local-search/#comment-8154 i dont see metromela content on Google or vice versa just yet. Google Local Search is quite crappy. Way behind the likes of Yahoo Local, Ask Laila,Burrp and vertical players such as Yulop. The Metromela integration should help humanize the interface quite a bit. Having said that, the metromela interface itself is one of the most boring i've seen in a looong time. The deal helps Metromela to a large extent because its search is not advanced enough to search beyond 'city'. So i cant search for locations within hyderabad for say 'pizza'. The result is a search engine thats not contextual enough. Aren't the benefits to Google Local Minimal though? They'd be better of emulating the Yahoo model and augmenting it. i dont see metromela content on Google or vice versa just yet. Google Local Search is quite crappy. Way behind the likes of Yahoo Local, Ask Laila,Burrp and vertical players such as Yulop. The Metromela integration should help humanize the interface quite a bit. Having said that, the metromela interface itself is one of the most boring i’ve seen in a looong time. The deal helps Metromela to a large extent because its search is not advanced enough to search beyond ‘city’. So i cant search for locations within hyderabad for say ‘pizza’. The result is a search engine thats not contextual enough. Aren’t the benefits to Google Local Minimal though? They’d be better of emulating the Yahoo model and augmenting it.

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