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 ...

If you live in eastern Volusia County, you may have recently received a phone book. For some of us, it may have been a pleasant (or unwanted) surprise and a nostalgic reminder of those pre-digital ...

Seattle's city council today approved one of the toughest laws restricting unwanted yellow pages phone book deliveries in the country. The new ordinance, approved in an 8-1 vote, creates an opt-out ...

Can Google win at Local? That is the $39 billion advertising question. Just as Google’s AdWords fueled billions can readily drive a multi-billion dollar takeover of the online display advertising ...

I have a set of very fat Yellow Pages phone books on the shelf above my desk. They have a thick layer of dust on them, since I have no reason to use them (and, I guess, I’m a less than fastidious ...

SNOHOMISH COUNTY, Wash. — It was 31 years ago when Steve Martin's character in his movie "The Jerk" howled in ecstasy, "The new phone books are here! The new phone books are here!" In the age of ...

Seattle's new law designed to crackdown on unwanted yellow pages phone books violates the First Amendment and should be declared unconstitutional, the phone book industry argues as part of a lawsuit.