Does anyone use an online yellow pages that works well? Lots of people say they’re using Google, but I assume that’s for finding a business whose name you already know. I have tried anywho.com and they totally suck as yellow pages, I get tons of ads and stuff that has no relation to what I want.
If I want to find local businesses, I find the phone book much easier to use than the Internet. As others have said, it’s easier to have all the vendors presented to you on a page with ads than having to try various kidns of searching and click on a million Web sites before you find what you’re looking for.
I also find it easier to grab the phone book and take it to my car.
No, just google. I have no idea how people are finding this difficult, or yielding less results than the book. Generally, google HAS the yellow pages results, as well as other results.
Go to google. Click “Maps”. Underneath the search bar is “Find Business”. Click it, enter What and Where as indicated and Bob’s your uncle. 16,651 results for pizza near Rogers Park, Chicago, IL - and at least the first 200 hits (I didn’t bother looking further) are all correct - pizza serving restaurants within a 15 minute drive of my front door.
Although usually I get just as good of a result googling Pizza delivery Roger’s Park or whatever, right in the main search page.
I see now! That’s great, I never tried it before!
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I am a fairly heavy internet user and to echo what others have said, there are some situations in which the printed yellow pages win hands down.
If I wanted to get the numbers, locations, and hours of all the Best Buys, Driver’s License offices, or Libraries in the big city near me, I would use the internet- all that info will be there and I woud get it quickly.
In the past year I have needed an appliance repair man, a pro tree trimmer and hauler, someplace to buy some turf, a guy who repairs decks, and someone who could do an pants alteration quickly. Using the interent looking for these services was a frustrating mess. I would get a few local hits, but mostly I would get a lot of garbage (national ads?). The paper yellow pages ads allows me to find ALL the businesses grouped together and gives me info to compare.
There’s nothing like a big, thick book to beat your kids with. I whale away on my son all the time with the Yellow Pages. It’s character building.
I tend to use dexonline.com with pretty good success.
Yes, because Google and online fake yellow pages are full of out of date information. Frankly, I’ve had much better luck with the book when I need to browse a category.
Back when I had Verizon DSL I used my phone book about once a week. I could never remember the number of the Verizon service line, so when the DSL went down (which it did at least once a week,) I’d have to look it up. Eventually I just tore the page with the number out and left it sitting next to the keyboard. Finally I changed to Comcast cable internet, and have never had an outage (or need to use the phone book) since.
Pretty sure Verizon screws up their DSL to justify the cost of printing those directories.
I don’t want 200 hits–I want the number of the specific place that I know makes the best pizza in the neighborhood. I can find a phone number for that business in the yellow pages in half the time it takes on-line clicking on dead-end websites, and even if they don’t have a website. Sometimes I need to go on line, but for the average phone number or address, it’s right there at a snap. Is it that hard to turn a page?
Especially if the computer is off, or someone else is using it.
I don’t think I’ve use yellow pages in years. When I am looking for a service such as a plumber I also want to do some online searching for reviews and recomendations. I would never use a contractor or the like without some background research.
If it is a business I usually just google the name of it and the city or the type of business and the city and the first hit is often what I need.
Ours goes straight into the recycle bin every time it’s delivered. Most likely it gets recycled into another phone book… sigh
So why can’t you google them? (I’ll grant you the power outage/someone using the computer exceptions, of course.) If you know the specific place, then all you need is a phone number, right? I thought I was being asked how to use google to find businesses if you didn’t know the name.
I’m not saying you HAVE to, I’m just saying I don’t understand those who are saying google doesn’t work, or doesn’t work as well as the Yellow Book. I think they’re just not doing it right.