[LINK] Sensis gives up competing with Google

[Brendan Scott]

Danny Yee wrote:
> http://www.smh.com.au/news/technology/biztech/sensis-concedes-defeat-to-google/2008/11/03/1225560716428.html
> 	"Telstra's Sensis has given up on competing with Google in
> 	online search and mapping, announcing today it would provide
> 	its Yellow business listings to Google Maps and abandon its
> 	own search engine for one powered by Google."
> 
> I've wondered for a while how the Yellow and White pages web sites
> could be so bad.  Now it looks like Telstra has given up hope of
> fixing them.

Quite.  The online yellow pages especially have been awful since they day they first started and have improved only marginally over the years. 

B