[LINK] Find me in the whitepages.com.au directory

[Adam Todd]

At 06:28 PM 2/04/2007, Rick Welykochy wrote:
>Further to this observation, do other Linkers find that the
>white pages search service generally is inaccurate,
>returning far to many non-specific results in an attempt to
>be "friendly" and usually not very good at finding what
>you actually want? After a few frustrating minutes with what
>amounts to be a below-par search engine, I invariably give up

I gave up when they changed the text interface.  It's useless now.  It's 
all graphical, it has scripts galore all through it that don't work with 
PDA's and simple browsers.   What they did was destroy a function that was 
working to make it unworkable.

As to finding things.  My gawd, I think I've used the new pages about 8 
times in the last 12 months.  My wife and I came up with a faster and 
better method, and it yields results such as private numbers all too 
often.  We've been using it for about 5 years, it seems to be becoming more 
and more useful.

I don't understand why people have private phone numbers and then list them 
on their web sites.  Duh!

>and use Google to find the address or phone number. Works
>every time. Oh, the irony!

That's it!  Thought you'd have moved over a long time ago too!

Don't tell everyone though.  We don't want Telstra/Sensis buying Google and 
sending it down the guugle.