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.

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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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