Before the Internet, if a person needed to obtain a phone number or address for a person or business, he grabbed the phone book and searched for the information. Back then, "Googling" consisted of ...

The Yellow Pages are under attack in Seattle, and they're fighting back. Bryan Buckalew reports on All Things Considered tonight that the Yellow Pages' publisher is suing the city after Seattle called ...

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The towers of Yellow Pages piling up on San Francisco doorsteps won’t be disappearing anytime soon. A 2011 San Francisco ordinance that created a three-year pilot program restricting the distribution ...

Remember when the Yellow Pages represented a collection of reliable local businesses you could trust with confidence? That thick book delivered to your doorstep each year contained companies that had ...

The Social Circle almost unanimously agrees that the yellow books need to stop arriving on their doorsteps. A few people, however, say they find them useful and a couple others brought up the fact ...

Alas, the poor phone book. Once, it was the cornerstone of American connection, an indispensable resource people relied on to find pizza shops, plumbers, and the number of the cute girl in math class.

The city of Seattle is finalizing an agreement to pay $500,000 to settle its losing fight against the publishers of the yellow pages phone books, according to two sources familiar with the lawsuit.

line or display ads in the Yellow Pages section of your local phone book(s) Don’t think twice about this: You need to be in the Yellow Pages just to let people know you’re a legitimate business and to ...