Vertical Search - Cars

One of the predictions many have made and I definitly believe in is that we will see an explosion of vertical search engines in 2007. I will try to keep track of as many (new) launches as I can. Here's a start with the cars vertical...

Last week saw the launch of a Dutch Cars search engine with the funny name "gaspedaal.nl" (accelerator). This site is launched by the company behind vinden.nl and zoeken.nl. This follows the launch of a Cars-(search) vertical in december by Yahoo, although Yahoo Cars carries a lot of content as well. I also expect other Dutch companies to come with a Car search engine soon. Funny fact; "rempedaal.nl" (brake) was registered on february 7 by classifieds site Marktplaza which also owns classifieds vertical search engine Advertentiezoeker (thanks for the tip JK!!). Apparently vinden.nl wasn't alert enough to register this domain as well.

UPDATE: A very alert Sebastiaan Ambtman alerted me that Marktplaza is actually a partner in the project - thanks seb!