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tashoecraft
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Probably was done to be ahead of apple and amazon in the yellow pages.
spitfire
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What's a yellow page?
citruspi
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A directory of businesses, like a phone book for businesses instead of people[0].
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Yellow_pages
scott_karana
on Aug 10, 2015
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I think spitfire was being sarcastic, eg, "nobody looks for tech businesses in annual piles of irrelevant paper anymore"
citruspi
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Yeah. I thought so too, but I wasn't sure, so I figured I might as well answer. It couldn't hurt.
scott_karana
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It was very polite of you. :-)
johnmaguire
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I thought it was meant to be reminiscent of yellow pages, or the phrase "From A to Z". After all, Google is a directory service.
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