Yahoo Australia Launches Local Search

Announced 9 minutes ago

[anallawalla]

Sydney, Australia – August 3rd, 2004, 10:00pm – Yahoo! Australia & NZ, today announced the launch of Yahoo! Local Search. The new product (http://localsearch.yahoo.com.au) greatly enhances Yahoo!’s search capability and provides Australian consumers and businesses with the opportunity to find local business listings and maps.

Press release URL (Word doc): [aapmedianet.com.au...]

[Pixeleyes]

Thanks for the info Anallawalla.

I checked my listing and they had me under a business name I haven't used for 2 years!

Wonder where they got that info?

[bpresent]

Non word version with commentary (ZDNet) [zdnet.com.au]

[Chris_D]

Try a search for Yahoo North Sydney

How about that - they forgot to list themselves! Maybe they banned themselves? 301 redirect error?

:)

[anallawalla]

In a mailing list we've had fun comparing the same search in our suburbs on Yahoo versus Sensis. e.g. dentist, barber, etc. Guess who is consistently better? ;)

Sky News just replayed an interview with Yahoo Head of Search Peter Crowe. He said that Aussie businesses can get a free listing for a limited time. ABN required.

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