iBegin Blog

So a few major updates to iBegin Source today.

1. We’ve moved the actual business listings from the source subdomain to the www. domain. USA Business Listings. This was so that the actual iBegin Source focuses on why businesses should use us.

2. We’ve also put our Canadian data live. Check out Canadian business listings.

3. We’ve finished the beforementioned category update. Important links:
Category updates: Old » New
Raw list of category updates
New master list of categories

We started off with 11,094 categories, and ended up with 10,432. 662 categories merged into existing categories - a 6% reduction. A total of 5177 categories were affected (though this does include minor tweaks like the above mentioned ‘(Manufacturers)’ vs ‘ - Manufacturers’.

4. We are temporarily turning off the non-commercial downloads. We’ve had quite a few cases of commercial usage. It should be back within <2 weeks with tweaked regulations to get it.

5. The new data format will go live in a few hours for commercial users to download.

[b]UPDATE[/b]

6. You can now order Canadian data!

[b]UPDATE 2[/b]

For current customers, we have an update page which covers all the changes.

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