Archive for the 'local vertical' Category

the wagging tail of local vertical

Posted by Perry on May 7th, 2008

It’s encouraging to see Kelsey Group take a lead role in sponsoring the industry dialog on the verticalization of local search.

We all have our own definitions of vertical search - most commonly we align around large shopping niches such as automotive, real estate and A&E. However, of late, we’re seeing this expand beyond “classified verticals” into key life event or considered purchase segments such as attorneys (avvo), weddings (wedding channel) and new homes (zillow).

why are YP’s vertically challenged?

Why are publishers watching the development of local vertical search from the wrong side of the podium?

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the verticalization of local, act 1

Posted by Perry on June 7th, 2007

I’ve been waiting for awhile to see the first rev of Avvo - a new well-funded start-up which is tackling Attorney Search as a new local-vertical online publisher. This is really important - we need a catalyst to ignite the debate over how deeply local might disaggregate into a series of specialized destination sites. This one gets close to the jugular - attorneys have been mainstream advertisers in Yellow Pages for decades. (more…)