About 3 years ago I had the idea that google or a yellow pages company should automatically translate business phone-numbers into webpages.
yellowpages.ca has had the same idea, and I'm not even miffed they took my idea. The wrapper for my new phone-book describes their phone-number-to-webpage translation. It includes whatever graphical ad the company put in the yellow pages, as well as maps for finding the location. Nifty.
In a moment of geekery, I played with it and found not only does
416-504-7934.yp.ca work, but the 7-number version-
504.7934.yp.ca generally works too, on everything in the Canadian yellow pages.
This almost almost makes up for the fact that google doesn't index Canadian phone-numbers as well as it does
American phone-numbers.
I don't know if this is new or not, but yp.ca does proximity searches as well. So, for example, I can now tell you there are 871 Tim Hortons within 200 km of me right now.
You don't know how reassured that makes me feel.