infoUSA and Microsoft renew licensing agreement

27 Jul 2009

Renewing its licence agreement to use infoUSA's premium local search content in Bing, Microsoft will integrate the content as part of Bing Local and Bing 411 - Microsoft's free service for local search and more.

Since 2002 Microsoft has included infoUSA content in its local search application and under the renewal agreement, Microsoft will continue to receive infoUSA's premium business listing content. The content of infoUSA's databases changes by around 65% every year. The information, which is constantly added and verified, includes 15.5 million businesses in the US & Canada and 2.2 million in the UK.