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Yahoo! Knows What Time It Is
July 07, 2006
Being in sales, it's important to know what time zone your clients and prospects are in for appropriate timing on calls. With so many cities/states broken up into separate time zones, it can be somewhat difficult to determine what time zone they’re in for calling.
Let’s face it, you don’t want to call someone @ 8:00AM Eastern when they’re on Pacific time. So, what can you do to avoid those awkward phone calls to Pacific timers @ 5:00 AM? Well...let’s see what the search engines have to say.
Lets take a look shall we.
Google doesn't know what time it is:
http://www.google.com/search?q=provo+utah+time+zone&sourceid=mozilla-search&start=0&start=0&ie=utf-8&oe=utf-8&client=firefox-a&rls=org.mozilla:en-US:official
MSN doesn’t know either:
http://search.msn.com/results.aspx?q=provo+utah+time+zone&sourceid=Mozilla-search
Yahoo! knows what time it is! Check it:
http://search.yahoo.com/search?p=provo+utah+time+zone&ei=UTF-8&rls=org.mozilla:en-US:official&fr=moz2
From what I can tell, Yahoo! is the only SE that will show you straight up what time zone a particular city/state is in and to boot, they’ll show you exactly what time it is for your time zone search in real-time! Yahoo! does this without having to have the end-user click on listings to find it unlike Google and MSN!
It’s cool tools like this that keep me from making mistakes on calling people waaaay too early and also helps distinguish one search engine from another in terms of unique tools.
Yahoo! gets a nod on this one for sure.
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posted by Sean Bolton at July 7, 2006 10:18 AM
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Comments
Hey Sean,
I also found Ask to provide local time as well. Good find!
Posted by: Jessica Guadiana at July 7, 2006 05:11 PM