A few important personal events are delaying the process of this website. As I already said we do use a business database so we have much more in store than the few categories that we have put up in place at the present time.

Consequently, we have decided to set up a first draft of the basic search engine on the website. It might still be a little buggy and for now it’s mainly based on the business names. I hope I can find the time to get to interpret the business category soon enough because I know, of course, that it would be much more practical!

Thanks to our followers for their understanding and support!

We have selected a way to propose high quality website thumbnails for the listed businesses that do have a Web front. Thanks to the help of artViper we will soon be able to automatically display the snapshots either in the main list or just on the upcoming custom business page.

The service is free for non-profits domains so if you’re a web designer looking for the same functions I’ld definitely encourage you to check it out yourself!

http://www.artviper.net/website-thumbnails.php

We are launching this website with big hopes, expectations, and ambitions. This means we are going slow to work on quality first and on quantity later.

We know that very few categories are available at the moment. The “Alpha” step will be for us the time to slowly build our categories tree to regroup more and more businesses in more and more domains. Of course, we are using a business database that is already quite complete. But our goal is not to parse 20 million pages and then just take a nap, because we would not be the first ones to do so! Yes it’s true, there are many other directories on the Web that list any business you could need to find, and I’m not taking about the Yellow Pages… but do you know one of them? probably not… why? because they can’t stand out! Our vision is to organize that 20M business list into categories that will fit YOUR searches and not just the government listing specifications.

The site is already quite functional, we do list a large quantity of pertinent businesses and it will keep on growing and bringing new features. This step is a also a good time to gather your comments and suggestions, so we would be very grateful to share any impression you could have with us.

Once we have a decent number of categories we will turn on the user features to let you complete the list, make it current, add details, comments, reviews… This will be the Beta version, and this is another story… In the meantime, don’t hesitate to subscribe to our mailing list to be warned every time a new feature is added!

Thank you all for your interest, and enjoy!

• We will use this platform to inform you about our progress, news and updates! Don’t hesitate to leave your comments but remember the rules:
• Happy or not, we will appreciate any constructive criticism and are looking forward to know the users point of view!
• Please remain polite and keep on respecting everyone’s opinion, we don’t want to start moderating and approving but we will delete inappropriate comments
• You are welcome to leave links to your own websites or other services that you find useful, we don’t mind a little competition when we can learn from it Nevertheless, we will sanction spamming.
• We don’t yet sign autographs or send dedicated staff photos.

This being said, I’m really excited to share this experience with all of you!