• From: Jim Ancona <scarhill@y...>
• To: David Brownell <david-b@p...>, jim@a...
• Date: Wed, 17 Oct 2001 17:25:29 -0700 (PDT)

--- David Brownell <david-b@p...> wrote:
> > So, how about a web service front end to http://yp.yahoo.com ?
> 
> You mean that's not a "web service" already?

A REST-ful one, I guess. Now, if it just had an option to return XML...

> 
> > At least then you get all the coffee shops, not just Starbucks.
> 
> Actually I just did the experiment, and it listed two Starbucks
> while totally ignoring five non-chain shops that come quickly to
> mind (out of dozens in the area).  And there's no way for me to
> tell Yahoo about any of them, correcting their major omission.

I tried it here and it seemed to return a reasonable mix. 

Jim

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