LSSiDATA® Powers New Location-based Search Services for seeker™ GmbH’s iPhone® & Android™ Mobile Phone Applications
Blue Bell, PA, June 6, 2011 – LSSiDATA® -- a leading provider of contact information for telecommunication providers, location-based services and others-- announced today that the new seeker™ Android™ and iPhone® applications from seeker GmbH are powered with contact information from LSSiDATA. The seeker application relies on LSSiDATA supplied business names, addresses, latitude/longitude coordinates and other details to return location-based results for text-input search terms to mobile devices.
Comprehensive and frequently updated business listings are combined with granular classification of commercial organizations to deliver accurate results for Yellow page-like category searches. LSSiDATA business listings also include rooftop geo-location coordinates to pinpoint results relative to the location of the mobile device at the moment of query. seeker takes advantage of Android and iPhone’s ability to identify current location, eliminating the need to input a town or a zip code in a search query where applicable.
“seeker delivers an exceptionally effective mobile search experience in the United States driven by comprehensive mapping from frequently used search themes to highly specific business listings, and translation between Spanish and English search terms,” said Michael Hillenbrand, Business Development Manager of seeker GmbH. “Our partnership with LSSiDATA allows us to deliver location-based search results with the most accurate and fresh contact detail, as well as to span continents with a consistently more effective mobile user experience via LSSiDATA’s global contact data resources.”
seeker provides users with an ability to search broad “themes” such as Food and Drink, Shopping, Travel and Traffic and other popular catagories. LSSiDATA’s business classifications developed with decades of experience enable seeker Android™ and iPhone® users to easily identify target specifics such as dentists, Italian or Japanese restaurants, or theaters playing musicals. All can be identified within the context of the mobile user’s actual location when a request for information is made. LSSiDATA’s multi-lingual contact resources enables seeker to automatically translate Spanish search terms into English and vice versa.
“seeker is a remarkably effective mobile device application that makes excellent use of LSSiDATA’s expansive, accurate and current repository composed of hundreds of millions of listings with geo-location,” said Terry Saeger, SVP and GM of LSSIDATA and VoltDelta OnDemand. “Our partnership with seeker affords us the opportunity to touch consumers throughout the United States as well as provide organizations with customized seeker applications supported by unique LSSiDATA business classification technology and quality as a Tier 1 provider of contact data.”
seeker can now be downloaded free of charge from the Android™ Market as well as from the iTunes® App Store. There is also a special version for mobile browsers available at us.seeker.info. Web search in the US will be available in the near future. LSSiDATA and its peer VoltDelta OnDemand business unit will also offer customized seeker applications for businesses that find value in a branded application possibly featuring tailored search queries or additional features.
About seeker
seeker™ is a location based directory service that is freely available with any standard browser and is compatible with many mobile devices. With seeker you can quickly and simply find people, business and points of interest in your area. The seeker™ application for iPhone®, Android™ and other types of smart phones gives easy and free access to our service wherever you are. seeker is currently operational in the following European countries: Switzerland, Belgium, Luxembourg and the Netherlands as well as in the USA. seeker™ is a service of seeker GmbH, a technology driven local search company based in Germany. Find out more about seeker here.
About LSSiDATA
LSSiDATA® enables direct marketers, telecommunication providers, location-based services and others to identify, locate and engage via comprehensive data repositories of contact information. LSSiDATA is a Tier 1 supplier of geo-location and other contact detail. Unique quality standards applied to data aggregated from a wide range of sources contribute to a data repository of hundreds of millions of listings with daily updates exceeding 2 million records, 6 days a week.
LSSiDATA and LSSiEurope are divisions of VoltDelta Resources LLC, which in turn is a subsidiary of Volt Information Sciences. Volt Information Sciences, Inc. (VISI) with corporate headquarters in New York, NY and facilities in Raleigh, NC, delivers on-demand and premise-based contact data to telecommunication providers, mobile and telematics vendors, direct marketers, Contact Centers and many others in North America. Find out more about LSSiDATA and the seeker™ mobile device application here.
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