YellowBot.com - now THIS is cool
Kelsey Group Blogs – Yellow Pages and Local Media:
One of the really interesting things I saw at the Drilling Down on Local 2007 conference was a private presentation of Yellowbot.com by Erron Silverstein.
Erron is justifiably exhuberent about his approach toward Internet Yellow Pages , social networking and web 2.0 (how’s that for a trifecta of buzzwords?)
I am one of the most jaded users of Internet Yellow pages (having run WorldPages.com for half a decade).
However, Yellowbot.com showed one of the most seamless integrations of easy consumer input with structured directory content.
Erron is (and I say this with much respect) a mega-geek. He’s nitpicked pieces of various properties and layered the most interesting features on top of the Localeze enhanced local business database.
In a way, it reminds me of MojoPages.com, a San Diego based start up that hopes to accomplish much of the same. (fabulous user generated content with structured data).
YellowBot is more likely to be a technology provider to an existing sales force or media publisher. Erron’s strength is not in creating a local sales force.
But if you want to see the future of IYP, take a look at yellowbot and mojopages.
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April 5th, 2007 at 5:23 pm
Hi Dick,
Glad you liked what you saw (and see)!
We have a lot more coming up in the next weeks and months. Both big new helpful features for the users and business owners alike and also subtle things like much improved data - we have our servers poking and processing away on the raw feed of data to get the “good bits” out.
You are right that an in-house sales force is unlikely to be in our future - others are much better at that stuff anyway, so when we need that we’ll definitely partner up.
- Ask
February 16th, 2009 at 4:17 am
Yellowbot is a scam. It lists people’s personal information as “businesses”. They just scrape other site’s listings or have purchased spam lists or mailing lists. Nothing but a lame attempt to rip people off. They also don’t respond to any requests to have personal information removed from the site. Avoid this website.
February 17th, 2009 at 9:56 am
A followup on my earlier comment. The people at Yellowbot did eventually contact me and have my personal information removed from their site, as well apparently from the business listing they use to populate the site. Although it was a frustrating few days wait, they we’re apologetic and accommodating in the end and it seems may make an effort to improve communications with users in the future about any errant listings.