trag wrote:
> On Nov 5, 4:46 pm, erilar <dra
...@chibardun.net.invalid> wrote:
> > So do I. Furthermore, I live in a lightly-populated area, and on-line
> > yellow pages are more work than it's worth to find anything halfway
> > local.
> I live in a big city and I have the same problem. The paper yellow
> pages are much much more accessible for finding a list of the
> companies that provide the service I'm looking for. The on-line
> lists are always mangled in one fashion or another to tilt them
> towards someone either paying more or gaming the system.
Where I am, I think the actual "Yellow Pages" (UK) web service is
still valid. Listings are paid for, I believe, to appear both in the
book and in the searchable-by-location database. You still wouldn't
get satisfaction from every name that appears for your particular
query, though.
Other online listings however - how is it in advertisers' or site
owners' interest to give me so /many/ results that are definitely not
what I wanted? Do they get more reward for scamming me into looking
at the bad data at all than they would do by putting me in touch with
someone helpful? Who runs the service, Terry Austin?
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