Searching high.Yahoo Inc. has upgraded its local search offerings not long after Amazon.com (Amazon.com, Seattle, WA, www.amazon.com) The largest online shopping site and one of the most widely known e-commerce sites on the Web. Founded by Jeff Bezos in 1995, it had 11 employees by year's end. Within four years, it had more than 1,600 employees and four million customers. Inc. introduced its new local search feature on A9, which provides photographs of neighborhoods and businesses in search results. Yahoo now has interactive maps at the neighborhood level, a calendar of neighborhood activities and customer reviews. "It's kind of like CitySearch, but deeper and broader," said Diana Vincent Diana Vincent (born in 1958 in Trenton, New Jersey) is an American jewelry designer and businesswoman. Vincent is the niece of American fashion designer James Galanos. Biography , a spokeswoman for Yahoo Local Search. The program also gives recommendations based on recent searches, using computer-generated algorithms The following is a list of the algorithms described in Wikipedia. See also the list of data structures, list of algorithm general topics and list of terms relating to algorithms and data structures. , and lists the most popular searches in a particular area. Yahoo sees it as another extension of social networking--not to mention the advertising potential. "It pairs what you search for with what others have searched for in your area, algorithmically," Vincent said. For Pasadena-based Yahoo Search Marketing See Yahoo! Search Marketing. , "there's obviously a lot of potential," she said. |
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