Canoe411, Quebecor’s New Canadian Online Directory Site, Soft-Launches
Posted by Sebastien on the 2008/02/06 at 07:50
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It looks like Canoe411, the new online directory from MediaPages (Quebecor Media’s directory company) has soft-launched. Powered by Local Matters’ Destination Search Platform, it includes data from InfoCanada.
MediaPages has announced that, in 2008, they will “begin publishing urban directories, co-branded with Vidéotron (Quebecor Media’s cableco), in the Greater Montreal and Greater Quebec City areas. These directories complete an array of regional directories currently published by MediaPages in communities across Canada, co-branded with local and community newspapers owned by Sun Media and Quebecor Media.” You can see an example of their print book here.
Canoe.ca, Quebecor’s portal, has yet to replace 411.ca with the new site.
Update (02/11/2008): it looks like the site is gone.
February 6th, 2008 at 08:19
I am 100% biased, since a competitor (yellowpages.ca), but I am disappointed (and momentarily happy) by what I saw…By contrast, check how my friend Pat Marshall, from yellowbook.com, did a superb job with his new online service..
February 7th, 2008 at 01:49
Dunno - same interface as other sites, same style, and just very slow (restaurants in TO took 11+ seconds to load).
They need to display the info they do have much better on the search results