Marchex to Present at Kelsey Group's 'Drilling Down on Local '07' Conference
March 19 2007 - 12:30PM
Business Wire
Marchex, Inc. (NASDAQ:MCHX) (NASDAQ:MCHXP) today announced that
Matthew Berk, Marchex Lead Search Architect, will be a featured
speaker at The Kelsey Group�s �Drilling Down on Local �07: The
Annual Silicon Valley Summit,� March 19-21, 2007, at the Santa
Clara Marriott in Santa Clara, California. On Wednesday, March 21,
Berk will participate in a forum entitled �Focus on the Vertical
Revolution,� in which Berk and other panelists will examine and
discuss strategies for success in developing Web-based properties
and products focused on specific local and vertical categories.
Berk, a founder�of Marchex�s Open List (www.openlist.com) vertical
search platform, brings perspectives as both an engineer and former
industry analyst. Prior to Marchex and Open List, he served as a
research director at Jupiter Research,�where he focused on coverage
of search technology and Web operations�and infrastructure. Berk
has been widely cited in the trade and�popular press on trends in
and the future of search, including The�New York Times, The Wall
Street Journal, and Business 2.0. According to The Kelsey Group�s
2007 forecast, global local search and Internet Yellow Pages
revenues will grow from $4 billion in 2006 to $11.1 billion in
2011. Local search is one of Internet advertising�s most rapidly
evolving areas, involving Yellow Pages, newspapers, Web-based
entities, television and other areas of media and technology. �We
are very pleased to have Marchex participate, and to include
someone of Matthew�s experience as part of the program agenda,�
said Matt Booth, senior vice president and program director,
Interactive Local Media, The Kelsey Group. �Marchex is doing some
very innovative development around vertical search and content
aggregation. Kelsey research shows that both of these areas are
increasingly important to both consumers and advertisers.� About
Marchex, Inc. Marchex (www.marchex.com) is a technology driven
search and media company focused on vertical and local online
traffic. Specifically, the company is focused on search marketing,
local search, and direct navigation. Marchex�s platform of
integrated performance-based advertising and search marketing
services enables merchants to efficiently market and sell their
products and services across multiple online distribution channels,
including search engines, product shopping engines, directories and
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