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By Gary Sharma 4/09/12 9:30am

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This is a guest post from Gary Sharma (aka “The Guy with the Red Tie”), founder and CEO of GarysGuide and proud owner of a whole bunch of black suits, white shirts and, at last count, over 40 red ties. You can follow him at @garysguide and reach him at gary [at] garysguide.com. Read More

By Adrianne Jeffries 1/03/11 12:49pm

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Yext's new league of advertisers is taking on the Google

NY-Based Yext Launches League of Advertisers That Are Not Google

New York-based startup Yext is launching a feature that competes with Google’s businesses listings and it’s got Mapquest, Yelp and Citysearch on board.

A few months ago, Google introduced photos, videos, coupons, links and other flair that businesses can add to their Google search results for $25 a month, as part of Read More

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