Traffic numbers: Yelp vs MerchantCircle

I just noticed that MerchantCircle is reporting 20M unique monthly users. Yelp's CEO Jeremy Stoppelman stated at last week's Local Search Summit that they have 25 million unique visitors per month. Closer than I expected.

Voice-powered Mobile Local Search

Mike Boland (Kelsey Group) has a nice write-up on voice-enable search at SearchEngineWatch. He reviews Vlingo, Tellme, Google and Sensory, Inc.

Voice search could have a bright future in mobile, and even evolve beyond the phone itself. For example, an area known as speech controlled Internet devices (SCIDs) transforms the myriad electronics that surround into their own little search engines.

Sensory Inc. is working on this proposition. It's spent the past 15 years embedded speech recognition chips in about 60 million products -- everything from in-car voice command systems to Bluetooth headsets, to voice controlled toys.

... http://searchenginewatch.com/3634640