It's local
We include links to web-sites relevant to the Leeds district - and nothing else. When your search is local, we want to convince you that this is the place to start.
It's relevant
Nearly all search sites use software to find and add web pages to their databases, but automated computer programs are no match for human intelligence when it comes to understanding whether a web page should be added to a searchable database, and how it should be categorised if it is.
Don't take our word for it - try this simple test. Go to your favourite search engine, enter Bradford restaurants and see what results it gives you. Did you find a usable list of restaurants in Bradford, or a seemingly endless number of similar directory sites, which often only contain links to paying advertisers? Were all your results genuinely related to Leeds, only slightly or not at all?
Now enter restaurants into Leeds.biz. Surprised by the difference? Because we carefully categorise and regularly check every site we add to our database, you won't find our results link you to deceptive or irrelevant pages, sites which have long since been abandoned or have no real content, out of date information or information generated from bought-in and often outdated databases.
So when your search is local do you want thousands of results from a global search engine, or relevant results from Leeds.biz?
And it's built by local people - (you can help too). Even though there are some search and directory sites which do build their search engines using people rather than software, they are rarely based locally. Can people based in London - or California - understand Leeds as well as people who live and work in the area? You decide.
It's honest
Leeds.biz provides a real web search - not disguised advertising. When you go to some search sites or directories, your search results are based on who paid the most for their entry, not what are the most relevant links. Some sites won't even list companies who don't pay a fee. Are you searching for a result which matches your needs, or do you want to limit yourself only to the companies who have the biggest advertising budgets and probably charge you the highest prices to pay for it?
We have to pay the bills as well, so we do carry advertising as well - but these are clearly marked - and we will never compromise the order of results from our search engine because someone pays us to do it. We also give sites in our database that link back to Leeds.biz a higher search-results placement than sites that are equally ranked (in our search-engine's scoring system) but which don't link to us. This doesn't affect the quality of search results (the order of equally-scored results is otherwise arbitrary), and we think it's a fair way of thanking them for the link.
It's free
Businesses and organisation in Leeds with websites can list themselves for free in the Leeds.biz service. We think charging people for basic listings on a web-site as some people do, is a self-defeating and frequently unethical practice.
It's comprehensive
Our aim is to provide the largest database of Leeds web-sites, so in addition to extensively searching the Internet - we're always on the look-out for website addresses when we're walking or driving around the Leeds area. That's also one of the advantages of being based locally.
It's a little known fact that most major search engines don't index all the websites which exist in the world, either because their automated systems can't find them, or they find but then exclude them for various reasons. We hope to provide a more comprehensive search service for the Leeds district than even the largest search engines find possible.
We take being comprehensive very seriously, but we won't stuff our database full of links to pages on the same site just to increase the number of entries in our database either - providing comprehensive results is something we take pride in, but not at the expense of making the Leeds.biz search experience worse.
It's fast
We're tired with search and directory sites which are full of pictures, graphics, and increasingly annoying adverts. You're coming to us to search for things so we want to provide that service as efficiently as possible. By adopting a simple design, we're also making sure our site works well on Internet-enabled phones and other mobile devices, which may be destined to become the most common way people access the Net in the future.
It's here
We hope you like our local search and directory site - if you do, please consider supporting the companies who advertise with us and therefore make it possible to produce Leeds.biz. Thank you for visiting!
Leeds.biz - the local knowledge search engine.
| Home | Advertise | Submit Information | Link Us | Feedback | About Leeds.biz |