Aries Penguin - Local Search Guru

I would like to personally welcome you to my blog.  My name is Mike O’Krongli.  I have been creating a local search engine since 2001.  It is soon to be brought to market.

Much has changed on the internet over the last 8 years.  Google has evolved from start-up to become the most recognized brand on the planet.  Social media sites like MySpace, Facebook and Twitter have become mainstay internet applications.  Real time search is early stage but is starting to take form.  Many companies,  including Google, are trying to capitalize on the enormous value of user content.  Events like the Hudson River plane crash and Michael Jackson’s death have exposed the need for this newly developing sector. 

Sometimes, the more things change, the more they stay the same. Local search is one of those areas.  Up until 2004, the major search engines had very little interest in local search.  Google bought Keyhole and intergrated it into their current product, Google Maps.  When looking from the outside, local search looks much improved over the original Yellow Page sites.  When I see local search today, I call it “local directory”.  These companies are only allowing you to search for a company or a category.  True local search should give you search engine results just like Google.  It should allow you to choose an area, category and keywords to produce search engine listings.  It should look like the local search system I have created.

I would like to invite you to see what real local search looks like.  I have created a test market site so you can test out this new innovation.  Please keep in mind that it has limited data until later this year (2009).