Comments on: Brownbook – a Crowdsourced Yellow Pages

By: dave

dave — Wed, 03 Jun 2009 19:42:50 +0000

now 27m records in US, CA, AU, CA and 240 other countries :)

By: » Developers use our OpenSearch API to deliver local business search and listings on your website Brownbook

Fri, 27 Jun 2008 12:56:31 +0000

[...] This means you can add your own search to your website and receive a set of results in a feed that you can format to display any way you like, for example to match your website’s look and feel. Here’s an example of a simple implementation by LocalMouth. This was done in (literally) a few minutes. Read their blog here. [...]

By: Dave

Dave — Fri, 27 Jun 2008 12:50:23 +0000

Hi Matt, just for the avoidance of doubt, “Yellow Pages” is a trademarked term here in the UK, and for that reason we’d never describe ourselves as a Yellow Pages.
Small point but legally important (my guess is that most consumers don’t give a damn about the TM and they regard it as a generic term, but not as far as the big YELL is concerned. But thats only my guess).
What do other think: do consumers treat it as a generic term???