Here's an interesting mail I received. I'm not sure if Mr. Denny thinks
there's just one OG for the whole UK, but anyway, what do you all think? I'm
a little unsure about the idea of autosubmitting things from a network of
search sites, and even less sure about using someone else's business
listings database.
----- Forwarded message from Bart Denny -----
Date: Tue, 9 Nov 2004 16:50:54 +0100
From: Bart Denny
To: Earle Martin
Subject: Open Guides
Hi Earle,
I wanted to make contact preliminarily with you to discuss using the UK
Open Guide content with you. We run "Local Search" or internet yellow
pages sites, both for the UK and across Europe. We would like to start
augmenting the base directory content (we license BT's directory
database), adding in reviews, ratings, etc.
Your content will obviously fit well within this, and that is the first
reason for contact. At some point, Secondly, we'd like to have it set up
so that all reviews submitted through our search sites could make their
way back onto the Open Guide sites.
Finally, as we have all of the business listings for the UK, including
latitude and longitude, it may be easier for people to use our site to
search for and submit a review - no need for knowing postcodes, phone
numbers, X/Y coordinates. Just pop in the name, and click on the right
one.
We would put these up on some or all of our white label clients' sites.
These include
www.118118.com and
www.yellownet.co.uk.
Please let me know if you would like to have further discussions on
this.
Best Regards,
Bart
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Bart Denny
www.inspireinfrastructure.com
Tel. +46-8-30 36 43
Mob. +46-708 747 210
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