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

[Roger Clarke]

I use:
http://www.whitepages.com.au/wp/initResSearch.do?textOnly=true

(Bookmarked it the last time they broke the link to the previous 
version of the text-only page.  Not sure where I found it but).

No sign of a Welykochy.  Not even as a Bus or Gov listing.

Maybe they gave you a gratis silent number?

Have you tried 1223 or one of the other expensive variants 12456, 1234?
http://www.telstra.com.au/phones/homeservices/distance_da.htm
http://www.telstra.com.au/contact/directory_assist.htm
http://www.about.sensis.com.au/voiceservices/index.php

<breathless>"On the 4th December 2006, Sensis made some exciting 
changes to the voice services ..." </breathless>

At least that way you might find out whether it's in IPND and/or silent.

I'm sure you have the right to complain to someone about this - 
assuming that you can find a complaints process and either get 
someone to respond or get the TIO, ACMA and everyone else to agree 
who the relevant powerless complaints body is (:-)}

Playing with Wel*, Wely*, Welyk* & Street=Adelaide gives some 
insights into the particular implementation of fuzzy matching they 
use.  (Presumably the Sensis salesman's 10-year-old son's attempt to 
reinvent soundex?).


At 18:28 +1000 2/4/07, Rick Welykochy wrote:
>I just noticed something annoying. I can find myself quite
>easily in the paper edition of the White Pages, since I am
>the only Welykochy in Australia.
>
>But try to find me in the online edition of same, at both
>the pretty rated up www.whitepages.com.au and the text
>only version at www.whitepages.com.au/wp/initResSearch.do?textOnly=true
>
>Last Name: Welykochy
>Intial: R
>Street: Adelaide St
>Suburb: Surry Hills
>State: NSW
>
>Nothing comes back. I have contacted them by web-based form
>(urgh) and will be interested in their response. I don't hold
>any high expectations of the issue being resolved by Sensis.
>
>Any Linkers care to try and find me in the quagmire that is
>whitepages.com.au?
>
>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
>and use Google to find the address or phone number. Works
>every time. Oh, the irony!
>
>(Perhaps there are white pages S|<1Z that are required that
>I do not possess!)
>
>
>
>cheers
>rickw
>
>
>
>
>--
>_________________________________
>Rick Welykochy || Praxis Services
>
>When choosing between two evils, I always like to take the one I 
>haven't tried before.
>      -- Mae West
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