About time. I literally can’t remember the last time I used one.
As of today, businesses and individuals can opt out of receiving paper-based phone books in the mail using a new Website called the National Yellow Pages Consumer Choice & Opt Out Site.
Last month, we wrote about a study showing that nearly 70% of adults in the United States “rarely or never” use the phone book, and instead opt to use the Web-based search tools, which are infinitely more convenient and efficient.
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To opt out of recieving the phone book on your door, head to www.yellowpagesoptout.com and register for the site.
#10 – but can’t you just get the same data from the phone company online?
Not a google search for J Smith, but exactly the same database with a web front end
Bobbo lives under the Dvorak Blog bridge, for sure.
People may poo-pooh Minitel but its still out there and there’s a web portal for it as well.
The French (yes those fuckin’ cheese eaters,) were ahead of the US in many respects and still are.
Remember the European Space Agency is still flying, Mark Kelly is heading to close the shuttle’s last mission and NASA’s budget is not doing so good.
Those cheese-eating surrender monkeys are way ahead of us in nuclear power, too.
I guess I’m old — I use mine all the time. It’s very handy finding businesses when you’re new in the area.
I use mine when the power is out, although I have the power company in my cell so I don’t need it for that. A number of years back when Bell South used to exist as a separate entity, they put out a web interfaced phone book and I use that usually. It has the advantage that, unlike the paper one, I can change the locale to another city/county book if I want to look up the number there. I can’t do that with the paper one. There are also apps for the iPhone/iPod/iPad for the yellow and white pages. I’m sure that there are Android apps as well.
I keep one in my car under my seat. Its pretty useful when your phone battery is too low to surf.