Yahoo! Local launched in France & Yahoo! Maps for UK, DE and FR

Last week was quite a big week for the Yahoo! Europe Local Search and Maps Team. Not only did we launch the French Local Search.

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Big round of applause to Sebastien our French product manager working
in the Paris (exile) office. Really great job much appreciated! So now
we have our product in 3 countries – still way to go but a very
important next step.

This is a preview of Yahoo! Local launched in France & Yahoo! Maps for UK, DE and FR. Yahoo! Local launched in France & Yahoo! Maps for UK, DE and FR

Yahoo! Open Hack Day in London – Struck by Lightning

This weekend the first ever european Yahoo! open hack day has taken place in Alexandra Palace in London.
Here is a video of “some people” including David Filo moving sofas to keeep them out of the rain that got into the building cause the fire alarm caused hatches on the roof to open…

This is a preview of Yahoo! Open Hack Day in London – Struck by Lightning. Yahoo! Open Hack Day in London – Struck by Lightning

Local Intent without an Identifier – AOL will get you!

Although the discussion of how many searches do have a local intent is a never ending one, and the numbers published do reach from 20% to 40% of all searches it is obvious that the better you cater the user the more likely he will come back to you.

This is a preview of Local Intent without an Identifier – AOL will get you!. Local Intent without an Identifier – AOL will get you!