Archive for November, 2010

OK, so clearly that’s hyperbole that’s associated with seemingly every technology merger and/or startup these days. But if the reported deal goes through, it would represent a colossal shake-up in our little world of Local Search…bigger even than Facebook Places (assuming Facebook eventually executes well on that potential). The only thing close to the magnitude of this deal would have been the proposed Google-Yelp deal that didn’t go through about this time last year. And I’m not even sure that was this big, for reasons I try to spell out below.