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UK Floor Cleaning Forum => Carpet Cleaning Forum => Topic started by: Doug Holloway on April 21, 2005, 12:05:17 pm

Title: Google Local
Post by: Doug Holloway on April 21, 2005, 12:05:17 pm

Hi,

Check out Google local which apparently is becoming big in USA and is now available in UK.

Cheers,

Doug

Title: Re: Google Local
Post by: paul@ctcs on April 21, 2005, 12:25:27 pm

Thats Fantastic :D

Has it just been launched??

Paul

Title: Re: Google Local
Post by: Doug Holloway on April 21, 2005, 03:27:16 pm

Paul,

I think it's new today .

It's based on the Yell listings so that's a bonus for those that are in . 8)

It will be interesting to see how many jobs come as a result.

cheers,

Doug

Title: Re: Google Local
Post by: eco freindly. peoples champion ron .sherlock on April 21, 2005, 04:56:09 pm

looks really good . well spotted sherlock

Title: Re: Google Local
Post by: JM SELECT SERVICES on April 21, 2005, 05:30:20 pm

What i can make out is the usa version is free,  but  the uk one is charged to you by the number of clicks, is this right or not.

Title: Re: Google Local
Post by: Mark Roberts on April 21, 2005, 05:37:20 pm

A basic listing in Yell is free, so everyone with this should be in google local.

http://local.google.co.uk/

Here's a snipet from the news -

Despite being new to Google in Europe this is clearly a step towards taking on the UK's Yellow Pages and Thomson Local services. In Germany Yahoo! has already teamed up with the German Yellow pages (Die Gelben Seiten) through its sister organisation Der Ortliche which has a strong market presence on-line and in traditional print. Ironically Gelbeseiten is in the top ten name searches carried out by Google Germany itself.

Figures for the last quarter of 2004 showed that 35 per cent of all Google's revenue, some $350m, was non-American based. The company sees this passing the 50 per cent mark within five years.

Speaking to the German trade magazine Der Handelsblatt, Meyer said that the UK was going to be a beta test track for the new sideline system which - he predicted - will roll out over the rest of Europe in the coming years. "Google Local (which it will be called in all areas and zones) starts first in Great Britain... and only later in Germany."

Mark