In today"s Vertical Challenge column, Getting Hyper-Active in Local Search, Michael Boland dives into the world of hyper-local, where newspapers and online startups use local online communities to get an edge on news aggregators like Google and Yahoo.
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>>Blog: searchenginewatch
>>Publish Date: 5/29/2007 1:01:06 PM
>>Keywords: local hyper
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