[LINK] Fwd: Sensis gives up competing with Google

[Kevin McKern]

About time. Resistance is clearly futile and google maps and route planning
vastly superior.

On Tue, Nov 4, 2008 at 12:15 PM, Danny Yee <danny at anatomy.usyd.edu.au>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.
>
> Danny.
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