Local Search & Directories Market Heating Up

Thursday, July 31, 2008 , , ,

We published an extensive report on Australia's local search market in April 2008. At that time we found there are 18 local players in this space. Now within 3 months this list has grown from 18 to 25. All these players are competing in this market worth $235 million as reported last year (2007). It is expected to reach to $532 million by 2010.

We have now further updated this list and following are the players competing in this space:

  1. AussieWeb Local Search
  2. Brownbook
  3. ClickFind
  4. dLook
  5. Docoloco
  6. FreeConnect
  7. HotFrog
  8. Google Maps
  9. Local Search Solutions
  10. Local.com.au
  11. Nook
  12. NineMSN - My Local
  13. OurPatch
  14. Phone Book
  15. Rave About It
  16. RAYV
  17. Start Local
  18. Street Directory
  19. True Local
  20. VirtualMap
  21. Yellow (Sensis, formerly YellowPages)
  22. Vouchorgrouch
  23. Womow
  24. WhitePages (Sensis)
  25. Yahoo!7
  26. ReachLocal
As far as the top players are concerned, this hasn't changed much since we reported last time. So, the top 5 players in this market according to their market share/business listings are.
  • 1. Yellow, MyLocal (NineMsn)
  • 2. dLook
  • 3. TrueLocal,Google Maps, Yahoo7!
  • 4. AussieWeb Local Search
  • 5. HotFrog
In addition to this 2 interesting aspects which has been brought to our attention concerning Sensis is this
  • For Whereis, Sensis is using an emerging local startup company in mobile space from Brisbane, Locatrix. It provides mobile social networking solutions for deployment by network operators and location-based services to corporate customers and application solution providers. It uses location to create and shape mobile content experiences that engage subscribers and generate ARPU. This is the engine beneath Telstra’s (Sensis) Whereis Everyone.
  • For searching Yellow & White Pages on Mobile, they are using the services of Mobilepeople. MobilePeople provides product suite under liquidSearch.

It is good to see that local technologies are being used locally for consumers. We will be interested in learning more about what others are using for their offerings in this space. Please feel free to drop an email to us or just drop your comments here.

Credit: Thanks to Mark for some of the tips on the new players.
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3 comments:

Anonymous said...

Good follow up Vishal. Interesting times indeed :)

August 1, 2008 at 3:59 PM
Anonymous said...

Hi Vishal, we are very pleased that you noticed us here at Brownbook. If we can give you any more info about our plans, then please do drop me a line marc[AT]brownbook{DOT]net. Also, we are on the lookout for a person in Sydney to help us launch Brownbook. is there anyone you can recommend?
Thanks.
Marc.

August 2, 2008 at 8:55 AM
Unknown said...

As everyone knows by now, video is very exciting. I think in the next few years people will discover that video is appropriate for certain areas of the consumer market, right now it seems like everyone wants to use video for everything. I think the small business arena will benefit the most from video which is pretty much the thesis behind Jippidy.com

August 3, 2008 at 5:38 AM

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