TELE-PAGES TO LAUNCH ONLINE BUSINESS DIRECTORY
By Adnews Staff
Tele-Pages Inc. of Markham, Ont. plans to launch an online business search directory service in mid-January. Initially, the service will be introduced in London, Ont., and will be rolled out to Calgary, Edmonton, Vancouver and Toronto over the next six months. Called Yellow.ca, the Web site will be a business resource of more than one million Canadian businesses and 51,000 direct links. Users will be able to search by phone number, company name, address, postal code, area code, city or province. They can also refine the search by entering or selecting from more than 6,800 business classifications. Yellow.ca allows users to compare businesses locally, provincially or nationally. The site also features a reference library of 3,300 live links to business information sites. All Canadian companies will receive a free alphabetical listing of their name, phone number and address. They could also purchase enhanced listings which could include additional contact or company information in a listing format or a page ad format.