On Dec 24, 9:56 pm, Wesr...@aol.com wrote: There are other search issues, too. Several months ago, using yellowpages.com, I was looking to see if a hotel or motel (name known) still existed in a small place. It returned 183 listings, many of them 800 numbers and many others 100 miles or more away. So true. Search engines have weird quirks. The above is a common problem
On Mon, 17 Dec 2007, Justa Lurker wrote: I'm curious as well about how many people (both Telecom Digest readers, and non-readers) still use a telephone book. I keep one in my car as I don't have mobile Internet access. But at home and work I haven't opened one in years. For the past few years, it's been easier for me to just look up the number I need on the Web. We have
>> Not me wrote: There must be a trick to finding a business phone number. For example finding the phone number of Value Village is a mystery to me. The white pages no longer list businesses, and the yellow pages require you to look under a category. The index is useless. If you can't guess the category they put it under, you're screwed. Other than "used" which
shopper <londonha@gmail.com> wrote in news:e7ced4d5-a18d-4a06-95fe-357ebfabfc7b@d21g2000prf.googlegroups.com: On Nov 19, 1:24 pm, Not me <not_an_addr...@woohoo.com> wrote: There must be a trick to finding a business phone number. For example finding the phone number of Value Village is a mystery to me. The white pages no longer list businesses, and the yellow pages require
