Tips and Tricks Category

Add Your Cell Number

We just did a beta launch of a new feature on our site that allows you to add your cell number to our site. We are doing this strictly on an opt-in basis, because that is what our users have told us to do. Why add your cell phone? If you’re like me, to be easily reachable by others that you care about. In fact, although both my home and cell phones are listed on WhitePages.com, I prefer that people call me on my cell. After all, I carry it with me everywhere and I turn it off when I don’t want to be disturbed (unlike my home landline phone). It’s also good to know that I can be easily contacted in the event of an emergency. For others, such as service professionals for example, there might be business reasons to add their cell phone.

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For this first beta release, we’re keeping the service very rudimentary. Although the service seems very simple on the surface, this is a very big milestone for us at WhitePages.com because it marks the first time ever that…
- we have added cell numbers to our site
- we have allowed our users to contribute listings
- we have configured our database to allow real-time updates on a listing-by-listing basis

Lots of product development and engineering heroics have gone into making that possible. Woo hoo!

Now that we have our foundation built, please stay tuned over the coming months, as we look forward to layering lots of additional (and useful!) services on top of the base offering.

Posted by Alex on April 30, 2008 – 5:05 pm in New Products, News, Tips and Tricks | 1 Comment

Getting The Scoop on Former Classmates

“Whatever Happened To…” is the phrase that launched a million searches on the web. Particularly around school reunions, we see an increase in the number of visitors at WhitePages.com who are looking for old friends.

We hear from users that often they’re just looking for ‘the scoop’ on an old friend or foe – to learn where they live, if they live in a nice neighborhood, family info, or where they work. You can learn a lot about your old classmates – before the reunion – without even picking up the phone.

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Posted by David on April 2, 2007 – 1:26 pm in Tips and Tricks | 0 Comments

Getting Back in Touch with Classmates

Ever want to get back in touch with an old friend, but too nervous to just call them up on the phone after so many years? Particularly in ‘Reunion Season’, old classmates want to reach out to find out what’s going on – before getting together, or to make plans around the big event.

Our own research indicates that Email is a communication method that users turn to as part of the psychology of communication in such long lost friendships.

WhitePages.com now has email addresses to help you get back in touch with friends. Our service is a low-cost, single-purchase of an email send (without joining a membership). We send your message via a unique, secure relay system that protects both you and the recipient’s privacy. If we don’t have the friend you’re looking for in our database, WhitePages.com also offers links to external companies that help you reconnect.

Want to learn more about how the system works? Visit our Email service homepage. Or, simply get started with your own Email Search.

Posted by David on March 27, 2007 – 9:04 am in Tips and Tricks | 0 Comments

Class Reunion Time!

Springtime is here, and if you’re lilke me and coming up on a school graduation milestone, your inbox and mailbox is undoubtedly filling up with correspondence urging you to attend your class reunion (I won’t say what milestone I’m at this year.)

Our own focus groups show that users turn to WhitePages.com first for quick information on People Search to find old classmates. One key area of functionality that we offer on our site is a nationwide search – the ability to check for old classmates regardless of city or state.

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Posted by David on March 20, 2007 – 9:28 am in Tips and Tricks | 0 Comments

Understanding Your Future Neighborhood

There are loads of marketing companies and tools to help new movers (including our own Moving & Home Improvement Center). However, in this last post on home buying tips, I’ll share how WhitePages.com can help you understand a neighborhood before buying.

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Posted by David on March 12, 2007 – 10:00 am in Tips and Tricks | 0 Comments

Checking out your future neighbors

In my continuing series on new ways of using WhitePages.com for house shopping, this post focuses on checking out the neighbors – before you even see the house.

There are two ways you can find your neighbors: First, conduct a Reverse Address search for your home and click on the Find Neighbors link from our results page. In addition, you can also use our Find Neighbors search form to view neighbors next to any address – your own, your family or even your friends’ addresses.

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Posted by David on March 5, 2007 – 5:17 pm in Tips and Tricks | 0 Comments

Tips On Buying A Home

We’re always talking to our users about ways they use our site. Going beyond simple people search, there are plenty ways WhitePages.com can help with various tasks and activities, including some you might not have thought of, like buying a home.

Educate yourself on the neighborhood and the seller before making an offer:
Start with a Reverse Address search. The Listing Detail page will contain lots of information on the neighborhood, and web results from our ‘Power Web Search’ tool can help you understand the seller’s interests better.

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Posted by David on February 27, 2007 – 3:05 pm in Tips and Tricks | Comments Off