+ New Platform From ClipBlast
Direct to ClipBlast

+ Shopping Search Engine Management Changes via Search Engine Land)
A roundup by shopping search guru, Brian Smith

+ Rebranded Canadian Local Search Site ZipLocal Launches (via SEL)

+ New:MapQuest: Send to Cell
Greg Sterling has the news.

A Few Additional Players
These services many which have been available for some time do not require a software download.

Ask.com
An Ask.com Local Search allows you to send directory info via SMS). Locations and directions searched using Ask’s mobile interface include a link to a map and aerial imagery.

Google
Local listings (address and phone number) can be sent as a text message or email. No maps. The same goes for driving directions. Google Mobile offers maps with local listings but not with directions. Ask Mobile will also allow a mobile searcher (let’s say you’re looking for a restaurant) to send the location to another mobile user. Makes it easy for friends to meet up.

MS Live Local
Driving directions and local listings can be sent to a mobile device. Screen cap. Maps or links to maps are not included when an address/phone number is sent via SMS. If you use Live Mobile from a phone/device maps are provided for local listings and directions.

Yahoo
Yahoo Local has allowed users the chance to send driving directions and address along with an optional map for some time. Here’s a screen cap. Yahoo Mobile offers directions without maps. The mobile version of Live.com offers maps with local listings and directions.

Others
+ Yelp offers a send to phone feature.
+ Switchboard.com Maps not Available.
+ SuperPages
Send to phone available. Maps not available.

Btw, MapQuest has offered some form of mobile/wireless service since 1999. Here’s a page from October 1999 that mentions the availability of real time traffic info, a service that’s now back in vogue. We’ve also seen mentions of MapQuest offering wireless tools in one form or another back to 2000. Here’s a news release from 2001 about MapQuest for wireless PDA’s. For the online historians out there, don’t forget that MapQuest began offering aerial imagery back in
2001. It returned late in 2006.

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