Yahoo Maps gets drag and drop re-routing, enhanced business listings
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Yahoo Maps gets a great new upgrade that helps users re-route their driving directions.
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Yahoo Local Updates With Tagging &#038; Photos Yahoo! Local today made some updates to its local search &#038; mapping offering with new &#8220;Collections&#8221; and &#8220;My Local Dashboard&#8221; features that enable its users to save, organize and discover information the way that they choose. The Flickrization of Yahoo is now expanding past normal search, MyWeb and niche [...]
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Yahoo has quietly expanded its local business listings and rolled out a service that gives businesses control over their listings in Yahoo Local through a new paid inclusion program.
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Hitwise&#8217;s Bill Tancer recently posted about the distribution of Google&#8217;s traffic across its many properties. As you might expect and has been historically true, that distribution is dominated by search.  Right now, Google owns the &#8220;brand&#8221; in search. But Yahoo and Microsoft have more &#8220;diversified&#8221; traffic across multiple properties. Without some more effort and &#8212; dare I [...]
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Blog: Yahoo Photos members now can start moving their photo archives to some alternative sites.
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More reshuffling of deck chairs on the S.S. Yahoo!
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Plus: How Google maps the world. Read these stories and more from around the Web on News.com Extra.
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New 'Send to Car' icon lets Mercedes owners send customized Google, Yahoo directions, maps and points of interest from computer or cell phone to car.
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Yahoo Search is currently doing limited testing on a new multimedia, multi-content driven search shortcut, which is powered by its content partners, Yahoo Local and Yahoo Travel.  Some searchers will find that when they search for information on major cities, a Y! Travel shortcut will be served above the organic and sponsored Yahoo Search results.  The [...]
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They can plumb the Internet for the latest movie times, news headlines, stock figures and gas prices. They'll even help you skirt traffic, find a parking spot or make a phone call. Oh, and they'll navigate for you, too.
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New widgets help personalize maps with dynamic content from diverse sources.
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U.S. mobile phone users might not have to stop and ask for directions as often thanks to a new service from MapQuest.com that sends color maps and directions to their phones.
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Yahoo Search Marketing is serving what seem to be some experimental ads throughout the Yahoo Network which use Flash animation to rotate the contextual advertisements which are being served.  I first realized this when doing some research within Yahoo Sports and found it surprising that Yahoo Search Marketing was serving a skyscraper ad with links to [...]
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Google Inc. has added a feature to Google Maps that lets users watch edits made to locations in real time.
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Today Ask.com has launched its highly anticipated new local search &#038; mapping offering, AskCity. Considered in part to be a replacement for CitySearch, but much more now that it is also the local arm of Ask.com, AskCity. Using a &#8216;one click&#8217; technology merged with Java and Ajax, AskCity keeps the user inside one browser window while [...]
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Ask.com is introducing AskCity, a service that integrates maps with information about local businesses, restaurants, listings and reviews.
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Over at Search Engine Watch Forums, a member asks about Ask.com&#8217;s Sponsored Listings and the quality of traffic coming from them. Seems that results are ranging based upon quality of the keywords chosen and campaign targeting, here are some of the responses in the mix: We get decent results from Ask. However, it takes some work. You [...]