Google Merges Hotpot With Places

On November 2010, Google rolled out a local recommendation engine called Hotpot. The idea behind the introducing Hotpot was to make local search results for places more personal and significant on Google....
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Google Local Introduces Dashboard: Small Businesses Rejoice

If you are a local business owner like a restaurant or electronics shop there’s a big chance that having an online presence gives you that extra special edge over your competitors. In this 2.0 world,...
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Recap 2008: Local Search Space

The local search space came into focus in India way back in 2006 with the funding of guruji.com and then there were a flurry of players that ventured into this space right from onyomo, asklaila, yulop,...
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HolidayIQ Powers Google’s India Local Search

Every alternate day we hear that this company has merged with a multi-national company and so on. Some time back we heard about India joining hands with UK to start a virtual school. Recently Google has...
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Google SMS’ng its way into India

The latest scoop on google is that Google will be now available on sms. The service would be providing local information to users through sms. One does not even require a GPRS enabled handset to access...
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