April 19, 2006 Update: SimplyHired Raises $13.5m from Fox Interactive Media
I last talked with Phil Carpenter when he was at SideStep. In January, Phil made the move from travel search to job search, landing at SimplyHired as VP of Marketing. Phil has been in the vertical search industry since the early days of […]
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These Mobissimo Activity Search ads are circulating through the Mobissimo site, but I’d expect to see them show up throughout the web and on a billboard near you…
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Mobissimo Activity Search - March 21, 2006
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Less than a day after ESPN launched it’s fairly clunky Sports Travel Site in partnership with Orbitz, Mobissimo launches Activity Search, it’s first step on a journey to become the virtual travel concierge. Read the press release.
As opposed to that plain old travel search box we’re all familiar with, there’s no destination box […]
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While there are lots of search verticals, I think the three that I’ve chosen to focus on - Shopping, Travel, and Jobs - share four common traits which will become a main theme of discussion on VerticalSearch.net:
1. Challenges in customer acquisition and building loyalty
2. Reliance on datafeeds and scraping
3. Highly converting distribution […]
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Jeff spoke at the Thomas Weisel Partners Internet and Telcom conference. I asked him what he thought of travel search engines. This is not an interview (no direct quotes), just what I picked up from his talk.
[The travel search engines] are still in the development stage, and they have not been completely successful […]
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I haven’t disappeared. Expect a couple posts a week going forward.
-b
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