Comments on: Google Partnership Spells End Of Sensis Search

By: Steve@Sensis

Steve@Sensis — Wed, 05 Nov 2008 05:42:17 +0000

You’re right – Google will be providing web search and paid search advertising on sensis.com.au. Users will get world class web search results and sponsored listings and continue to be able to search Yellow, White Pages and Trading Post content from the one website.

By: Rob Marston

Rob Marston — Wed, 05 Nov 2008 04:41:10 +0000

I feel for Sensis, a fantastically positioned company with access to a healthy slice of Australia. How they can have fundamentally messed up so many launches and re-launches puzzles me (who has been working in on line for over 10 years).
This latest news is a lifeline for Sensis and long overdue too. Of course it is sad that Australia cant produce its own Search Engine (unlike neighbouring countries in Asia) but I recently heard that there were more searches on Youtube in Australia than Yahoo Australia, so did Sensis ever really stand a chance????

By: idodialog

idodialog — Tue, 04 Nov 2008 15:05:34 +0000

On the other hand it probably doesn’t make any difference – has any one ever heard of anyone or searched for anything using the Sensis search?
Or am I really out of touch and people who use Bigpond (I’m told there are lots of them forking out excessive dollars) have a Sensis search built into their Bigpond homepage (which they don’t care to or know how to change).
No – even they have surely changed their homepage to Google. Phew, I can rest easy now!