I’m surprised at the responses I have had from my post yesterday about my trail of 118118’s new question answering service. Quite unusually for The Blog of Ross C Brown, the post received replies, most of which pointing to one of 118118’s competitors, Any Questions Answered (AQA). (more…)

118118 is one of the many (supposedly 200+) companies offering Directory Enquiries in the UK and is one of the top three 118 companies which together control 90% of the industry. More recently, 118118 has launched a services allowing you to text the company a question and receive a reply from a real person. (more…)

For those of you who don’t know, I recently moved to Edinburgh for University and all that. As a result I use Google Maps all the time to find my way about. The other day I noticed the option to get directions using public transport.

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I’m a student, I live in a city. I spend between 40 and 80 minutes a day on a bus. When you add that up over a week thats quite a bit.

However, bus companies, unlike train operators don’t give a crap about you. Trains have refreshments, ticket inspectors, Wi-Fi and annoying PA announcements.

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Live highlights as they happen, all times are London, UK. Updated, now with pictures…

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