Comments on: InfoGroup on Merchant Supplied Data: Useful, but No Substitute http://staging.blog.biakelsey.com/index.php/2010/03/04/infogroup-on-merchant-supplied-data-useful-but-no-substitute/ LOCAL MEDIA WATCH. The Nexus of All Things Local Mon, 01 Jun 2015 22:23:47 +0000 hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=4.2.39 By: CPA Naples http://staging.blog.biakelsey.com/index.php/2010/03/04/infogroup-on-merchant-supplied-data-useful-but-no-substitute/comment-page-1/#comment-426125 Sat, 10 Apr 2010 13:41:26 +0000 http://blog.kelseygroup.com/?p=5976#comment-426125 I agree with David. Info USA’s information is very good in comparison with other directories.

]]> By: Miami Locksmith http://staging.blog.biakelsey.com/index.php/2010/03/04/infogroup-on-merchant-supplied-data-useful-but-no-substitute/comment-page-1/#comment-423684 Fri, 02 Apr 2010 05:09:06 +0000 http://blog.kelseygroup.com/?p=5976#comment-423684 I think It was well written

]]> By: Ask Bjørn Hansen http://staging.blog.biakelsey.com/index.php/2010/03/04/infogroup-on-merchant-supplied-data-useful-but-no-substitute/comment-page-1/#comment-415108 Sat, 06 Mar 2010 03:54:13 +0000 http://blog.kelseygroup.com/?p=5976#comment-415108 Very well put David.  We at YellowBot obviously agree – and the merchants do too.

If just submitting your data to InfoUSAs closed system worked so well we wouldn’t see thousands and thousands of them each month coming to our site to enhance their listings.  :-)

  – ask  

]]> By: David Mihm http://staging.blog.biakelsey.com/index.php/2010/03/04/infogroup-on-merchant-supplied-data-useful-but-no-substitute/comment-page-1/#comment-414922 Fri, 05 Mar 2010 17:17:20 +0000 http://blog.kelseygroup.com/?p=5976#comment-414922 There is obviously a balance that needs to be struck between opening the floodgates for anyone to submit listings willy-nilly and only taking listings that are proactively generated or verified in-house, but to proclaim that a closed, top-down system is the solution to the local data problem not only runs counter to the entire trajectory of the internet but ultimately harms the quality and completeness of infoUSA’s data in the end.

From what I’ve seen, infoUSA’s data is indeed very high quality and they do an admirable job of verifying it. However, I am not sure this mindset will be productive for them as a long-term ethos.

]]> By: brian http://staging.blog.biakelsey.com/index.php/2010/03/04/infogroup-on-merchant-supplied-data-useful-but-no-substitute/comment-page-1/#comment-414866 Fri, 05 Mar 2010 14:34:02 +0000 http://blog.kelseygroup.com/?p=5976#comment-414866 I thought this was a great response- http://blog.yellowbot.com

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