Yellowpages
and Whitepages are great help for finding information
about companies, people, products etc. While yellowpages
provide information on companies and products,
whitepages provide information on people (like
a telephone directory) So, if you are looking
for contact details of a company in Bahrain, probably
the search will start from a business directory
of Bahrain.
Before the advent of Internet, printed
yellowpages were about the only source of such
information. These printed directories are not
only expensive but tedious to use as search options
are usually limited to category or company.
With the advent of Internet came
hundreds of yellowpages with not only superior
search facilities generally associated with computerised
databases but also at almost no cost. Even after
dotcom bust there exists a large number of country
specific and special purpose yellowpages where
access is still free.
Another feature of Internet directories
is the ability to search for people (also called
whitepages) as in telephone directories. This
is a wonderful feature not available before Internet
era where one can search for telephone directories
of the world in the Net. For example, MTNL telephone
directories are now available in the Net.
Tips
on Better usage of Yellowpages and Whitepages
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Prefer country-specific directories
rather than general purpose ones.
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Read the help/guide file before
search, it saves time
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Check the language - is it English
? If not, is an English version available
?
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Some directories allow reverse
search (i.e. find telephone number when you
know name, as well as find name when you know
telephone number). It is a very helpful feature
- specially for people search
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Many directories allow partial
string matching - for example a search by
'joh*' will retrieve John, Johny, Johnson
etc.) While this is great help when you do
not know full name - partial string match
also retrieves lot of unwanted junk. Use this
feature carefully.
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Narrowing down your search always
helps. For example if you know the State or
province or Category - input them in search
query (provided the directory allows multiple
keyword search facility).
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Check your spelling. Upper case,
lower case mix usually does not matter
Yellowpages
List of select yellowpages. Please
use any search engine to cover other countries.
Australia
Telstra Australia Yellow Pages http://www.yellowpages.com.au/
Bahrain
Bahrain Internet Pages http://bahrain.middle-east-pages.com/
South Africa
Official South African yellow Pages
http://www.yellowpages.co.za
Business Directory and yellow Pages for South
Africa http://www.easyinfo.co.za
China
China Big - Comprehensive Business
Listing for Greater China - in Chinese and English
http://www.chinabig.com/en/srch/
China Pages http://www.chinapages.com/
UAE
Abu Dhabi Business Directory http://www.adcci.gov.ae/services/directory/index.html
Whitepages
List of few notable whitepages
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Populas Calls itself the "intelligent
people locator". Can locate people by more
than just their name, but doesn't seem to
have a large number of names yet. http://www.populus.net
Special Purpose
Directories
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Inmarsat Ships Directory - Telephone
numbers of ships in Inmarsat Global networks.
If you are ashore and you want to contact
a ship at sea, use this directory for the
ship's tel, fax, telex or email address. http://www.inmarsat.org/ships/
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KOMPASS Trade Directories 1.6
million companies, 23 million key product
and service references, 3.2 million executive
names 744 000 trade and brand names.... http://www.kompass.com/ -
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