YouPage.co.
uk is a local online consumer search, share, and communication utility powered by local business and service generated content.
What makes YouPage different is local business or events search can be entered and interpreted in plain English. With YouPage it is possible to enter a search like “events in October” or “beauty salons open on Monday” and receive relevant results. This is achieved in part by hosting directory listings data at a very granular level.
Listing data is held in a variety of standard internet formats which are openly available on the internet. By hosting data this way they are able to provide an open data platform which is accessible via an API to web developers so that they can concentrate on building engaging mini applications for themselves and their clients that do not replicate data across application types.
One such way to reuse YouPage listings data is with Gadgets and Widgets. Gadgets and Widgets are fast becoming a popular way of marketing businesses and services. With YouPage any directory listing can easily be converted to a Google Gadget.
