Yahoo! Local launched in France & Yahoo! Maps for UK, DE and FR
Posted on June 30, 2007
Filed Under Yahoo! Local Search |
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.
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.
But not only have we launched local in France, we have launched the Yahoo! maps platform “Galieleo” in The United Kingdom, France and Germany as well. It’s a wonderful product and a fantastic platform Nila has done a great job in managing the teams in the US, and throughout Europe. People in Grenoble, Sunnyvale, London, Dublin, Paris and Munich – people in our engineering, web development, design, marketing, customer care, legal, quality insurance and product management team needed to be steered and catered to make all of this possible. It’s great to see a compelling product like our maps finally on the European Yahoo! sites.
We are obviously are using the new maps in our local product as well and there will be even more integration in other Yahoo! properties and as a platform for very nice cooperation like the one with Sony round their Handycam.
Heike did a great job in gathering a list of people involved to thank …
Nila Matthews, Sébastien Levaillant, Frank Fuchs, Carie Lowther, Samuel Flamand, Patrick Bünner, Christopher Jirsa, Mark Law, Jeremy Kreitler, Gus Maldonado, Norman Shi, Rodney Fernandez, Mike Heideman, Ian McBurnie, Sylvain Bauza, Lambert Ma, Laurent Gachon, Christophe Dehaudt, François Echantillac, Aurélien Morlighem, Anne Hervé, Douglas Cabel, Mathieu Tank, Caroline Constantin, Grégoire Clemencin, Guillaume Calvas, Edward Stone, Duy Trang Quang, Kalyani Pisupati, Jackson Thach, Lev Stesin, Xiaobing Han, Ronny Choie, Amol Pattekar, Richard Ng, Yun Zhang, Clay Bobisud, Gilles Devaux, Mirek Grymuza, Loic Jousselme, Agnes Leparlouer, Isabelle Licoine, Patrick Miceli, Suzy Hay, Sudha Gogineni, Peter MacDonald, Jeremy Longinotti, Eddie Babcock, Bruce Campbell, Gary Gale, Holger Durer, John Wright, Robert Pancic, Herbert Dazo, Angela Watts, Hazel Checkley, Stephen Field, Kevin Bauer, Amanda Jahn, Gaetan Ferey, Susanne Hiepe, Laxmi Kerai, Lee Wright, Vincent Leung; Dustin St Clair; Johanna Mathieu, Dan Barnes, Sebastian Stuber, Uwe Tippmann and many many others…
Thanks again to everyone involved!
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Hello,
Good news but what about the API.
It’s not yet working. When will it be available in the yahoo local api ?
Getting on to Yahoo Local in the UK is a nightmare if you happen to have a Yahoo account with a .com email address. The form will only let you select US states and the state is a mandatory field. Grrr.