Google's phone-based automated local business search has gone live.

Users may dial 1-800-GOOG-411 (presumably North America only), give their location, and then the type of business they are looking for. Using speech recognition, GOOG-411 provides a list of matching entries and then connects callers to their choice.

No charges are involved apart from any associated with the original call.

Read more: itwire.com 

Labels: business, GOOG-411, local, mobile, phone

Google India has started the display of advertisements in Hindi under its contextual Adsense service. Under this contextual service, website publishers earn a portion of the advertising revenue for placing Google sponsored links on their web sites.

Read more: techshout.com 

Labels: Adsense, advertising, contextual, local

YouTube will launch nine country specific versions of YouTube today.

YouTube local versions will be available for Brazil, France, Ireland, Italy, Japan, Netherlands, Poland, Spain, and the U.K, complete with relative country specific domains such as youtube.fr and youtube.jp.

The new sites include fully translated site content and will eventually deliver country specific popular content.

Read more: techcrunch.com 

Labels: international, languages, local, youtube