Award Winning Directory Enquiries: Best Online Directory Enquiries Service 2005 is Announced

This year's prestigious 118 awards were held at The Lowry Hotel Manchester City Centre. Hosted by the very funny Gina Yashere the best directory enquiries services in the world have been rightly rewarded. This year's award entrants were treated to a champagne reception and mouth watering five course meal at Manchester's first five star hotel.

(PRWEB) September 9, 2005 -- This year's prestigious 118 awards were held at The Lowry Hotel Manchester City Centre. Hosted by the very funny Gina Yashere the best directory enquiries services in the world have been rightly rewarded. This year's award entrants were treated to a champagne reception and mouth watering five course meal at Manchester's first five star hotel.

This year's Best Online award was presented by Kathleen Pierz of the Pierz Group.

"With a continuous growth in internet users, consumers and businesses are becoming more comfortable using the internet as an alternative to printed directories and the telephone services." Commented Kathleen.

In searching for a winner of this category judges looked at a range of sites including, Mobile118.co.uk, 118118.com, b4usearch.com, yell.co.uk, bt.com and 192.com.

Considering aspects of Design, Innovation, functionality, usability, performance and communication. The judges agreed with two clear favorites this year. The final nominations are:

192.com
Mobile 118.co.uk

The awards judging panel is made up of experts in the market place and included representatives from The Pierz Group, Thomson Directories, Performance House, Lindley Consulting, Scansoft, Performix Technologies, Telecommunications Users Association, Volt Delta and 118tracker.com.

In comparison to the others the winner of this year's award stands out positively, particularly in the ease of use, and the extended services offered.

Their ongoing work to greatly expand both the database and the search capabilities of their site has clearly set them apart from their rivals.

The winner of this year's Best Online Service, for the second year running, is 192.com.

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