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Last year we published a report comparing the top Florist Directories<\/a> with the top Internet Yellow Pages sites.<\/p>\n

I thought it would be fun to run the same report a year later and see how things have changed. The methodology remained the same, we just recalculated the scores based on today’s rankings.<\/p>\n\n\n<\/col>\n<\/col>\n<\/col>\n<\/col>\n<\/colgroup>\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n
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Surprisingly, YellowPages.com is the big winner. (Or, perhaps not so surprising … we’ll discuss that more in a few days \"Smile\")<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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