Report: Local Search Meets Social Search TOC

Summary and Recommendations
Summary
Recommendations
Local Search and Internet Yellow Page Providers
Mobile-Local Search Providers
Social Networking Website Providers
Business Listings Providers
Map Database Providers
Introduction
Defining Local Search
Where is the Money in Local Search?
Differences between Local Search and Regular Online Search
Components of Local Search
Commonalities in Local Search
Weaknesses of Local Search
Evaluating Search Results
Business Listings and Map Databases
Potential Solutions
The Wisdom of Crowds - the Link to Social Networking
Overview of Social Networking
Social Networking Applications
Folksonomies and Tagging User Generated Content
Social Search Tool
Tag Engines
Social Bookmarking
Social Directories
Personalized Search
Recommendation Engines/Collaborative Harvesters (also known as meme diggers)
Limitations of Social Search Tools
Summary of Social Networking and Social Search
From Social Search to Local-Social Search
Local-Social Search
Community Information Sharing
News/Classifieds
Entertainment
Hyper-Local
What Does Social Search Offer Local Search?
User Generated Content
Application of User Generated Content in Social Search
More about Social Bookmarking and local Search
Personalized Search
More on the use of Tags in Local Search
Social Search Tools Are the Future of Local Search
Can Concepts from Social Networks or Social Search Tools be Used to Make Local Search a Trustworthy Environment?
Improving Business Listings and Map Data in Local Search
Improving Business Listings Databases
Improving Map Databases
What Tomorrow Holds
Increased Personalization
Mobile-Local Search
Summary
Appendix I
Appendix II

Companies Mentioned in Report

Alexa
Amacai
Amazon.com
Angie' s List
AOL City
Ask.com
Axciom
BackFence
BeFound Local
Blogdigger
Blogger
BooRah
CitySearch
CitySquares
Craigslist
del.icio.us
Digg
Dodgeball
DontStayIn
Eurekster
Facebook
Feedster
Flickr
Friendster
Furl.com
go2
Google
hi5
Hitwise
Idearc Media
infoUSA
Jitterfingers
Judy' s Book
Kaboodle
LinkedIn
Local.com
Localeze
Loopt
Microsoft
Millenial Media
Mini-Cities
Mobio Networks
Mojo Pages
My Opera
MySpace
Navteq
Newsvine
Northwest Voice
Open Directory Project
Orkut
Our Faves Toronto
Palore
Panaramio
Ping-O-Matic
PlaceBlogger
Platial
Reddit
Rollyo
ShopLocal.com
Shoutwire
SmallTown
StumbleUpon
SuperPages.com
Tehnorati
TeleAtlas
TeleMapics
TomTom
Twitter
uLocate
Weblogs
Where
Wikipedia
Yahoo
YellowBook.com
Yellowpages.com
Yelp
YouTube
Zimbio

Local Search Meets Social Search

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Companies Mentioned in Report