Hey, that was my idea (PSA: canadians)
Friday, 3 March 2006 07:48 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
daAbout 3 years ago I had the idea that google or a yellow pages company should automatically translate business phone-numbers into webpages.
yellowpages.ca has had the same idea, and I'm not even miffed they took my idea. The wrapper for my new phone-book describes their phone-number-to-webpage translation. It includes whatever graphical ad the company put in the yellow pages, as well as maps for finding the location. Nifty.
In a moment of geekery, I played with it and found not only does 416-504-7934.yp.ca work, but the 7-number version- 504.7934.yp.ca generally works too, on everything in the Canadian yellow pages.
This almost almost makes up for the fact that google doesn't index Canadian phone-numbers as well as it does American phone-numbers.
I don't know if this is new or not, but yp.ca does proximity searches as well. So, for example, I can now tell you there are 871 Tim Hortons within 200 km of me right now.
You don't know how reassured that makes me feel.
yellowpages.ca has had the same idea, and I'm not even miffed they took my idea. The wrapper for my new phone-book describes their phone-number-to-webpage translation. It includes whatever graphical ad the company put in the yellow pages, as well as maps for finding the location. Nifty.
In a moment of geekery, I played with it and found not only does 416-504-7934.yp.ca work, but the 7-number version- 504.7934.yp.ca generally works too, on everything in the Canadian yellow pages.
This almost almost makes up for the fact that google doesn't index Canadian phone-numbers as well as it does American phone-numbers.
I don't know if this is new or not, but yp.ca does proximity searches as well. So, for example, I can now tell you there are 871 Tim Hortons within 200 km of me right now.
You don't know how reassured that makes me feel.
