Comments on: Greypages Does Reverse-Search On Phone Numbers In Oz http://techwiredau.com/2008/10/greypages-does-reverse-search-on-phone-numbers-in-oz/ Australian Technology News Sun, 04 Sep 2011 07:10:03 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.0 By: who phone number belongs to | Bookmarks URL http://techwiredau.com/2008/10/greypages-does-reverse-search-on-phone-numbers-in-oz/comment-page-1/#comment-988 who phone number belongs to | Bookmarks URL Fri, 24 Oct 2008 18:23:51 +0000 http://techwiredau.com/?p=1377#comment-988 [...] Greypages Does Reverse-Search On Phone Numbers In Oz Unlike a standard phone book where you do a look up of someone’s name and grab their phone number, a reverse phone book lets you type in a number (or a suburb, street, etc) and find out who that number belongs to. … [...] [...] Greypages Does Reverse-Search On Phone Numbers In Oz Unlike a standard phone book where you do a look up of someone’s name and grab their phone number, a reverse phone book lets you type in a number (or a suburb, street, etc) and find out who that number belongs to. … [...]

]]> By: Mathew McBride http://techwiredau.com/2008/10/greypages-does-reverse-search-on-phone-numbers-in-oz/comment-page-1/#comment-984 Mathew McBride Fri, 24 Oct 2008 07:25:37 +0000 http://techwiredau.com/?p=1377#comment-984 Haha! The greypages thing was around a few years back as well, using data from one of the last 'phone book on CD' things sold retail. There were legitimate reasons for shutting it down at the time, first and foremost it was a copyright violation. If you look into the EFA archives for 2004 you'll find a discussion. Apparently some companies simply send the White Pages hardcopy overseas to be typed in or OCR+verify with cheap labour. Haha! The greypages thing was around a few years back as well, using data from one of the last ‘phone book on CD’ things sold retail. There were legitimate reasons for shutting it down at the time, first and foremost it was a copyright violation. If you look into the EFA archives for 2004 you’ll find a discussion.

Apparently some companies simply send the White Pages hardcopy overseas to be typed in or OCR+verify with cheap labour.

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