Eircoms new TalkToWeb service....

DeVore

Ever wish you could find the information you want on the Web without having to trawl through endless sites? Well now you can.

Search Enquiries "Talk to the Web" is the first telephone based directory enquiries service for the Internet. Find the site you need by making a short telephone call.

eircom.net are bringing you this service free for the next six weeks for the cost of a Dublin call.

So as well as saving time and money, you'll be surfing the site you want in minutes!

My emphasis... I am reading this wrong?
its from here: http://home.eircom.net/TalkToWeb/

DeV.

yankinlk

we should invent a word for that...

eirconlogic

Andor

I can just see the operator on the other end of the line scrolling through the Google.com search results!

They're not giving their customers much credit, are they?

PiE

Originally posted by Andor
They're not giving their customers much credit, are they?

So what's new?

Die Eircon, Die.

b20uvkft6m5xwg

Oh Sweet Fancy Moses...

/ me shudders / Rubs eyes / Places hand on hot surface /


DeV. if you hadnt have given the URL i would have though you were yanking our collective chains

What next...
A 1550 number so somebody can read TeleText to you !!!

pertinax

thats true if i didnt see it there i wouldnt believe it.......

Am i the only one who things "free ...... for the cost of a Dublin call." doesnt add up? adds up to too much?

Be good if an ornithologist asks for sites on blue tits. intresting search results probably.

DeVore

its the free for the next six weeks for the price of a Dublin phone call... bit that gets me... does this mean that Dublin phone calls are going to be free for the next six weeks?

yay! \o/

DeV.

spooky donkey

Yeah and how much will they charge for it after the 6 weeks, knowing eircoms track record!

Lorax

are there not laws to prevent this kind of thing?

Dangger

WTF! That is INCREDIBLE!

One thing it illustrates is how Internet illiterate Eircom view the majority of their customers, which my well be the case but to offer such a service, and free for the cost of a Dublin phone call too, amazing!

The Internet was the greatest thing that ever happened to Eircom, especially the fact that they've managed to keep it bottled up in Ireland and sell by the sniff.

Has any one tried it out yet, for the laugh?

Dangger

The number is ringing out, I guess the Internet must be switched of until Tuesday then I was all ready to ask for the IOFFL site address.

Maybe this is the Eircom response to recent partial flat rate offerings and the Minister's comments. Perhaps it's possible to get one of the operators to read out sites to you too and you could talk to them as long as you need for just a local call!

patrickmooney

Talk to the web are an external company. They have nothing to do with Eircom. They had a similar deal about 2 months with EsatBTs portals, iol.ie and oceanfree.net. I used it back then, wasn't the very best. Usually the service is through a 15xx number.

SkepticOne

Wanted: Search engine clerks.

Basic literacy an advantage.

morgana

Originally posted by SkepticOne
Wanted: Search engine clerks.

Basic literacy an advantage.

Must have infinite patience, excellent spelling skills and clear diction

.. imagine no, Sir, that is a - c - d forward slash
...
no forward slash , you know ....

gandalf

ROFLOL - UTV & ESAT are starting to release products that everyone wants and whats Eircoms reply "TalktoWeb".

Pathetic is not a strong enough word for it

"...What do you mean you can't find a site with Big Tits on it....."

LOL looks like "Dr. Nolan" should fire his new products dept as well as the Marketing drones.

Gandalf.

Tellox

"Hi, can you give me the URL for an Irish internet pressure group, dedicated to putting a stop to eircons monopoly over the irish market, and try to bring us cheap, high-speed, always-on connections like the modern world has?"

daveirl

This post has been deleted.

DeVore

What about this:

"Hi, can you give website for someone who can break Eircoms monopoly and give this country a decent OLO offering so we dont end up being a 3rd world banana republic in tech terms? Can you do that for me? Thanks."


DeV.

jd

It's actually run by this company

http://www.searchenquiries.com/

oneweb

Originally posted by Tizlox
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Tizlok, I've read and re-read your sig. Is it right? or a pisstake?

Tellox

my god, this was explained in the admin board, numerous pm's and in many other boards. The sig is a PISS TAKE. note the "last edited by eircon" at the bottom

OHP

Dev where on Earth do you get this stuff? LOL!

OHP

Dustaz

Originally posted by Tizlox
my god, this was explained in the admin board, numerous pm's and in many other boards. The sig is a PISS TAKE. note the "last edited by eircon" at the bottom

If you havent realised by now that its too complicated to be a pisstake, then let me be the first to tell you

LFCFan

they really are taking the piss. It ranks up there with the new 'paper based' penalty points system being introduced. If we weren't already the laughing stock of Europe, we are now. E-Hub of Europe my arse!

sax0000

Originally posted by jd
It's actually run by this company

http://www.searchenquiries.com/

The 1580 number shown in this website for Ireland is not exactly a call to Dublin (unless you are on a satellite phone in the Antartic), where it wouldn't work anyway because it is outside Ireland's internationally addressable numbering space.

The "Frustrated searching? Call us now" number is priced in the eircom website (surprise surprice the most expensive premium rate number permitted) at EUR 1.9038 per minute.


sax0000

sax0000

Originally posted by Dustaz
If you havent realised by now that its too complicated to be a pisstake, then let me be the first to tell you

Given that the company hasn't removed the website at this stage, have they decided to try out the business idea or are they so dozy or indifferent that it will remain hosted by them forever and a day?

Perhaps they will enable the number and put music on the line together with the statutory "your call is important to us, please remain on the line" message?

sax0000

PS If they are, there is a lot of scope for targeted creative websites

Dustaz

Sax, as indicated by what i was quoting, i wasnt referring to the talktoweb service. Personally, i think the idea is a non runner and had refrained from commenting

ando

my god, what a joke.. i cant believe they'd waist money on this. What kind of ppl do they think use the internet in ireland ??? This service sounds as if its aimed at 55+ yrs old ppl that are only beginning to learn about the internet

ando

and why the F*CK do they give us things that we don't need (for example, this crap and 'want to break free') ... and refuse to give us what we desperatly do need ???

DeVore

Because their market research tells them that people dont want broadband (lie) but their market research has obviously shown that voice based search systems on premium rate phone lines are the way forward and a burgeoning new market.

DeV.

Fallschirmjager

HA HA HA HA HA HA HA

this is turning out to be a great day...

only eircon could think this is an idea.. talk to the web...

sweet jesus what next...a golden pages -- print of the web but only for the area you live in' for free if you pay

HA HA HA HA...i think this is right up there with the rat as a company emblem!!!!


oh jesus cmon everyone lets ring and say

hey i want you to search for porn and read out to me every result you get...since its free (for the price) i would be interested in how they read out 55 bazillion pages...

god what a day -- this is brilliant...

now chant after me

eircon...eircon.. eircon HA HA HA HA HA HA