Today YellowBot went in public beta mode.
The site is brought to us by Ask Bjoern Hansen of Perl fame through his (new?) Solfo venture. I accidentally stumbled over YellowBot back when Solfo was still in stealth mode frightening Ask a bit along the way, probably making him suspicious about me being an industrious spy. Suffice to say I was not and as a result I can call myself an early adopter.
So if you are from the U.S. looking for a nice local search / yellow pages site, check out YellowBot. My user page is over there.
Yellowbot is a scam. It lists people’s personal information as “businesses”. They just scrape other site’s listings or have purchased spam lists or mailing lists. Nothing but a lame attempt to rip people off. They also don’t respond to any requests to have personal information removed from the site. Avoid this website.
A followup on my earlier comment. The people at Yellowbot did eventually contact me and have my personal information removed from their site, as well apparently from the business listing they use to populate the site. Although it was a frustrating few days wait, they we’re apologetic and accommodating in the end and it seems may make an effort to improve communications with users in the future about any errant listings.