Blogdigger, a search engine for blogs and syndicated content, announced the beta release of Blogdigger Local, an online service for discovering, retrieving, and aggregating local content. The service is, available at http://local.blogdigger.com/. Blogdigger Local categorizes blogs and news feeds by geographic location, allowing users to find, view, and subscribe to blog and news content published in and around their location of choice.

"It is well known that Weblogs have created a global conversation, on a global scale," said Greg Gershman, President of Blogdigger. "But conversations are happening at a local level as well, and Blogdigger Local does the job of identifying those conversations and in order to bring people together on a community level. Whether it's citizens' journalism, grass-roots media, or just personal opinion, Blogdigger Local connects participants in new and useful ways."

In addition to the Local search service, Blogdigger has partnered with Whizspark Corporation, an online event marketing service, to provide location-based advertisements for events in location-targeted search results. "With the rise of consumer-generated media and community driven websites, there is an extremely large opportunity to reach people online where they are reading, writing, and communicating with friends and colleagues," said Peter Caputa, CEO of Whizspark Corporation. "Marketing via thousands of small websites/weblogs is a difficult process. Blogdigger Local provides an unprecedented means of reaching people and targeting event marketing campaigns geographically. Combined with Whizspark's RSVP- and ticket sales-tracking, our alliance allows us to be at the cutting edge of online local advertising in both targeting capability and supplying accountable ROI-driven advertising for thousands of small and large events alike."

"Whizspark’s event advertising fits perfectly with our goal of providing unique, valuable content services matched with targeted, relevant advertising to what the user is looking for," said Gershman,. "Our goal is that our users view the advertisements as equal in value to the content they get through our search services."

The initial launch supports locations in the United States, with over 50,000 unique cities/states and zip codes available. An advanced search form is available for latitude/longitude coordinates world-wide. Additional locations, features and advertisers will be added during the beta period.

About Blogdigger Blogdigger Inc., is a search engine that provides fast, up-to-the-minute search results of the latest posts collected from blogs and syndicated content feeds, such as RSS. Blogdigger's Media Search technology specializes in indexing the most current media content (audio, video, images) available via syndicated content feeds, providing an enhanced media search experience. For more information visit www.blogdigger.com.

CONTACT: Blogdigger Inc. Greg Gershman greg@blogdigger.com