Chicago - 5:13 pm on Dec 6, 2004 (gmt 0)

good questions

Has anyone ever approached infoUSA and Acxiom to provide data for websites.

yes. and there is also many businesses which buy the data add to it, use it, and resell it again. also worth noting is a trend amongst these providers to gather additional meta data on a business. as meta data is a very important growth portion of local search.

Is it feasible as a small niche publisher of regional directories to use them as backfill?

yes it is.

<added> of course there is a cost.

[edited by: Chicago at 5:45 pm (utc) on Dec. 6, 2004]