Google grabs 2.4 million businesses listings fromYellow Pag

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Google grabs agreement to list 2.4 million businesses from the Yellow Pages Group

Google sighed up MONTREAL (CP) - Yellow Pages Group for their Google local search Canada

Yellow Pages said Tuesday its 2.4 million Canadian directory listings will be available on the new Google site. Google Local Canada will use technology to combine local business data from Yellow Pages Group, Canada's largest telephone directories publisher.

Google Local addresses the growing online local search market and represents the next step in local search technology, Yellow Pages said.

The Yellow Pages network of web sites received almost 4 million visitors in July 2004 and Google Canada's sites received more than 12.3 million visitors during that same period, the companies said.
Combined they are expected to reach more than 72 per cent of all Canadian Internet users.