Looking for a thread in a haystack

The Internet is not a secretary bird, but gives certificates

Find a person in a fairly large city may be a difficult task, especially if a person is completely unfamiliar to you. Usually you have to delve into the directory for a long time, leading your finger on huge data columns. However, reference books are not always convenient to carry with you. In addition, not everyone has them.

How to go to the library?

Of course, it is more convenient to have a telephone directory at hand or at least your notebook, which, as a rule, contains a small list of people and organizations, you can’t rewrite the whole book to the notebook.

Suppose you need to find a person or company, but only some information about them is known. What to do? First of all, every normal person will climb into the bookcase in the hope of finding a telephone directory there, and even if he is there, the search process will be difficult due to mechanical reasons. Eyes and hands will get tired of "driving" in small lines. In addition, the information in the book may not be complete or outdated. We still do not have mods for the annual purchase of the latest telephone reference books.

For the second search method, you will have to call the reference service and slowly but surely introduce yourself and the operator into a stupor, explaining to him what you need from him.

On the third way of the search, more advanced people go, although all their advancedness lies only in the fact that they keep up with the times. First of all, representatives of the “advanced” class will climb on the Internet and find the necessary pages there. This procedure takes no more than five minutes by force, especially if you often use the network resources. All that is required to search is to fill a few lines and click on the “start” with the mouse.

There is nowhere yellow

With reference resources in Runet, things are very good. All kinds of telephone reference books are simply higher than the roof, the main thing is to choose the right one, since most of them offer a search for a particular city. Electronic telephone books throughout Russia, unfortunately there are still few.

The site "Yellow Pages" (http://www.yellowpages.ru) is a fairly roomy on-line reference book ("companies") in all cities. Search can be carried out in three common categories: by rubrics, companies and streets, it is also proposed expanded, for the most meticulous users.

Apparently, once it was possible to view the map of Russia, now not functioning. And this is despite the fact that in 2003 in the National Product Prize of the Year in the nomination “For the quality and efficiency of the database”, the victory was awarded precisely to the Moscow reference book. Yellow pages ”and the website www.yellowpages.ru, which, for the most part, representing the Muscovites for the most part, the quality of the quality of the award, apparently, was fed up, the slow work of the site remained for at least three to four years of information when searching for the regions.

The site also has a WAP version, users of cell phones can safely look for any information. I would like to know if a map works for them on which you can find the exact location of the company desired.

“Yellow pages of rin.ru” (http://yellowpages.rin.ru), just as in the previous case, suggest you find any organization, however, an extended search can be set immediately. Here the process lasts very quickly, but here not all information meets the criteria for accuracy and novelty.

Although the information of a year ago is not such a terrible and hopeless business, despite the fact that a lot can change in a year, except that the organization of the organization does not change.

One of the telephone branches of the Rin.ru portal is a reference to Russian citizens (http://phone.rin.ru), where the search is carried out in almost all cities, including Pskov. However, at the “opening” of the Pskov reference book you will be thrown with Rin.ru to the oldest Pskov resource (http://www.pskov.org.ru/telephone), where you will have to look for a local reference book, slightly outdated (about 5 years).

Another representative of the “Yellow Bratia” was the site “Yellow Pages of Peter” (http://www.yellowpages.spb.ru), which also searches for various organizations. You can choose in advance the sphere to which the company you desired belongs to, which greatly simplifies the search process.

Despite the name in which the word "Peter" appears, the resource is not limited to work in St. Petersburg. Here you can look for organizations from other cities, but the information presented is also not the first freshness and will serve you as a comfort that such and such a company once still existed. And maybe still alive.

And there is no other coloring?

In addition to the officially declared “yellow pages”, there is a great many sites and other “colors” on the Internet, although their gamma in no way affects the content. They offer a search for the cities of Russia as a whole or only specific, for example, in the capitals-Moscow or St. Petersburg.

The site of Gella (http://hella.ru/code) offers users a page on which you can choose any Russian city, as well as the CIS country to find a phone or address of any organization or person.

To do this, you can choose, as a rule, two options: the search for a single city is carried out from the resource of this city, for example, in the case of Pskov, it will be the same “pskov.org.ru”, in the second case you will be thrown into a strange resource, which is not the first time. In any case, both are worth testing.

“Big Telephone Book” (http://bigphonebook.ru), despite the promising name, is looking for the necessary information not in all cities (there is no Pskov). Basically, all the activity of the resource is aimed at Moscow. The procedure takes a little time, but the user has to fill out a special search form for a long time, which greatly limits the search capabilities, although ideally such forms should simplify this process.

A simple electronic reference book of the Interveb site (http://interweb.spb.ru) is searching for St. Petersburg and Moscow. He does it quickly enough. You will calculate the location of your Moscow and St. Petersburg friends without difficulty. In the appendage to reference materials on people, a list of renamed cities (from Soviet to modern names), as well as their intercity telephone codes, is presented here.

A simple search offers you a resource “Find simply” (http://www.naitiprosto.ru). Information is provided only by Moscow organizations. Information can be sought in two sections: "What?" And "Where?" For “incomprehensible” users on the site there is a section in which secrets of accurate and successful search are signed in detail, some of them are called “unique”. In a humorous section, you can marvel at human literacy when most users manage to look for something like: “swimming pools with water”, “headboxing piercing” or “kidboxing”.

So look for health, how much your soul will be, but remember that you can also be found in the same way.

Artem Koryushkin.