yell.com

Advantages: quick and very easy to navigate, reliable search results.
Disadvantages: none

...will also do so. Yell.com was originally designed to be an electronic version of the yellow pages. For me, trying to find a hairdresser, it is indispensable, since in St Andrews, shops and businesses play musical chairs with alarming regularity. Every week one closes and re-opens elsewhere, some go for good, and there are always new places opening up. It’s like that with hairdressers – my old one had gone, so I needed to find a new one, ...
...not easier, to use. Yell.com gets a thumbs up from me on this point. The site is presented in a very clear way, using only the colours yellow, blue, black and white, which makes it easy on the eye. Navigation is simple and it is very easy to search for the type of business you are after. Into the box marked “what?” you type in the type of business – in my case, hairdressers, or if you are after a specific name, then you can type ... Read review

Advantages: easy to use, national coverage
Disadvantages: no major disadvantages

...I find the yell.com much easier to navigate than Scoot, and whilst the way that the searches are performed aren’t always perfect, you can be sure that you’ll always end up with exactly what you went there for. I wonder if J R Hartley’s cottoned on to it yet...? ... Read review

Advantages: Very easy and uncomplicated to use, Very good coverage
Disadvantages: None that I can think of

Yell.com are electronic version of the standard Yellow Pages. In this day and age this is an important and useful site. The site can be accessed at there website address: http://search.yell.com/search/DoSearch This link will take your directly to the main page. The main page has been made very simple and uncomplicated. It contains only pertinent sections and links. The main area is in the center of the page and titled “Search Our Directory”. ...
...need to enter, prior to doing the search, and these are: I Am Looking for – What? – Just enter what you’re looking for i.e. Internet Café or Pharmacy etc. Or a Company called – Perhaps you know the name of the company your searching for. Then simply enter it in here. Located In – Simply enter the city/town name or the postcode Then hit the “submit” button and your finished. You will proceed to receive ... Read review

Advantages: Fast and efficient
Disadvantages: none

...business is already listed on Yell.com and he has only been trading for a very short period of time! There are a number of other services available via Yell, a Yell mobile service (which I have yet to use) and you can have Yell text you the nearest taxi, pizza place, hotel, etc., in reply to a simple text message! And you can have the details of a business sent to a mobile phone, too, though you need to be logged in for this service. Text charges ... Read review

Advantages: Fast, easy search for phone numbers
Disadvantages: None

Fast national yellow pages even quicker than finding the piece of paper where you wrote down the number down before. This is the best resource for commercial telephone numbers with business lines in the UK. The page loads up nice and quick and the interface is simplicity itself. Fill two of the three boxes and hit the search button for quick result. The first box is labelled ‘1. What?’ this is for the Yellow Pages category but who the hell knows ...
...of the company. But the categories don’t need to be complete for example, TAXIS AND PRIVATE HIRE VEHICLES but any unique part of it can be used for example, TAXIS. The second box is labelled ‘or Who?’ this is used instead of the first box if you know even a part of the company name that you want the number for. For example, for Pronto Cars you enter the whole name or either of the words in the company name. The third box is labelled ‘2. Where?’ this ... Read review