Happy holidays to all TKG blog readers and everyone else out there. We’ll be back next week with more posts, and will launch into ‘07 with a set of New Year’s blogging resolutions. Stay tuned!

Bill Slawski today examines how a vertical strategy can be important in local search. This was a significant theme at ILM:06, and we’re beginning to see a shift toward vertical segmentation. Take a look. It’s an interesting read, and I’ll get the chance to dive deeper next week.

Yell Group will finally be allowed to set its own prices for advertising in its Yellow Pages directories starting in April 2008, according to a new ruling by the U.K. Competition Commission.
For the past several years, Yell has had to operate its telephone directories under a price control of RPI minus 6 percent, which meant …

The news has been full of the immense bonuses that are being paid to financial and legal executives because of their companies’ incredibly profitable year. The individuals whom we read about tend to be the investment bankers and traders or top attorneys who are on the firing line every day. Some may view the sheer …

Yootsa.com is one of the scrappier and newer U.S. “meta search engines.” Not yet one year old, the site considers itself a “new generation meta search engine,” by virtue of its simplicity and location-aware search function.
As part of its expansion plans, Yootsa recently launched a Yootsa.co.uk edition  and is planning on rolling out Yootsa.de …

Editor and Publisher Senior Editor Joe Strupp lists the top newspaper industry events of the past year.
In related news, Scarborough Research did a relatively small sample study that shows online newspaper readers are more likely than the average Internet user to conduct online shopping.