ThinkLocal.com - Network Solutions’ Entry in Local Search
I noticed that Network Solutions has quietly added a play in the local search / IYP space - ThinkLocal.com. The site includes maps, weather, a yellow pages like search for businesses, and user review features.
I’ve thought for years that a site which allows people to search specifically for business websites would be a killer app, and Network Solutions has always had enough data to provide that very sort of thing through their status as a major domain name registrar. Unfortunately, I think no one site ever created a sufficiently broad directory of business websites, and Google, Yahoo! and MS Live have all evolved to fill that gap to some degree (it’d still be great to have the ability to only search for biz websites and not get unrelated content).
ThinkLocal doesn’t appear to be purely built from Network Solutions’ database, though. I found (more…)
Popularity: 19% [?]
Posted by Chris Silver Smith of Netconcepts on 09/27/2007 | Permalink | 
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