URGENT: Search by phone number?

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Q. Anyone know if there is a search engine that lets you look up a location by phone number(instead of the other way around). I have a phone number to what I know is a fax machine at what I think is a business. I need to know tonight.

A. they contain name, phone number and address. The BUSINESS disk also contains a code for the category of the business. The BUSINESS disk can be searched by any of the fields, and the search can be limited to particular areas, and can be set to exclude certain areas. The example in the manual is to search NYC but exclude addresses with "Bronx" in them. You can search by phone number. I looked at the block of 7500 DID numbers for my work address, to see how many had published listings, for example. The RESIDENTIAL disks have a more limited user interface. You can only search by name, though you can limit the search to a particular state or area code or phone exchange. But they're always sorted by name. So you can't search by phone number but you can limit it to the exchange and then visually scan through a thousand listings. Not too great. There are lots of impossible numbers listed. For example, on the business disk (which can be searched by phone number) a few are listed in area code 911! And a dozen or so are listed in area code 710 (the strange secret area code we discussed here a while back). But looking at those listings, they are obviously typos or scanning errors, since they are geographically in a few specific places with similar area codes and are completely ordinary small businesses. In the search of our DID numbers mentioned above, I found a bunch of errors: [Background: You have to know that before the 617/508 split most (but not all) of the 617-87x exchanges were in Framingham MA, which is now in 508. 617-873 did not exist until it was created for us, in Cambridge, which stayed in 617.] Now on the business disk there are a number of 617-873 listings which claim to be in Framingham. So not only are they typos for some other 87x-nnnn but they are in the wrong area code for Framingham. On the other hand, there are some listings shown in 508-873, too, and that exchange doesn't exist at all.

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