scoot.co.uk

I normally use www.yell the online Yellow Pages, to find business's and well known companies in my area. However, I find that yellow pages, is really slow, and it can take ages to find what you are search for. I heard about Scoot, so I thought I'd try it, the first thing I noticed was how quickly the pages loaded, within half a minute the home page was fully loaded. The lay out is very simple, at the top of the page, you can find business's in any area, so for example if you wanted to find a plumber in Skegness, it would come up with all the plumbers in that area. You can also search by company name, so for example if you wanted to ...  Read the complete review

Wow! Now this site I like a lot...and it was only through wandering around dooyoo earlier that I found out about it. In some ways it is very similar to Yellow Pages being, as it is, a listing of local businesses and services in your area, but it has some extra features which make it far better - and its not a pain in the a$$ like the yell.com site... Scoot allows you to search for businesses in your, or any other area simply by entering in the name of the location you are at, and the type of business you are looking for. For example, I am in Dagenham(briefly) and am looking for a Japanese restaurant, so I type in Japanese restaurant and Dagenham and it comes up ...  Read the complete review

This will only be of interest to those promoting websites. One day when I was out and about looking for ways to promote my website, I stumbled upon Scoot. They were offering a three month free trial of their services, and, not being one to look a gift horse in the mouth, I signed up. They phoned me, they said they could get me six hundred pounds worth of trade in that time - which would make their fee of two hundred pounds a year well worth paying. I read the small print, filed in the direct debit form and waited. And waited. And the I waited for a bit. About a month later a letter arrived telling me that they had got my details and that ...  Read the complete review

‘Fast, easy and comprehensive’, this makes Scoot the UK's leading business directory with over 2 million business listings. Cinema Guide – This lets users, both telephone, and Internet to listen or read the cinema listings at whatever cinema in the country you want to go to. They also give you the address and telephone number to the cinema you want to go to. Loot – The website for the newspaper style advertising company. Company Name – Search for company names, and they will display the nearest match, with address, telephone and fax numbers. People Finder - Track down old friends and look up lost ...  Read the complete review

Scoot.co.uk is a result of the Freepages Group PLC (the company that ran 0800 192 192) and an alliance with Vodafone in 1996. It is basically an online version of the Yellow Pages, you can search for different business by either name, type or location. It also has a people search and a cinema search facility. Scoot isn't just an online service but a free service avaiable from land-lines and by dialing '333' from a Vodafone handset. It is very useful if you are a Vodafone customer, not only is it free but they also send the details of the business to your handset in the form of a text message, all for free. Scoot is well known for ...  Read the complete review