The utilities commission requires phone providers to deliver a directory once every year. But in the light of the Internet phone companies want to change that requirement so that it is only required to “publish” the listings. AT&T Inc. said last month it wants to try delivering its White Pages online rather than on front porches, noting the effort could save 4 million pounds of paper per year in two North Carolina test cities. AT&T’s internal research showed that customers rarely use the White Pages as they increasingly turn to the Internet for basic phone listings. Bob Bennink, the general counsel for the North Carolina Utilities Commission, said the agency will consider the issue at a mid-October meeting.

But you don’t have to wait for the old Bell to make a move on Radiux.com you can already search more than 66 Million white page records and get better results than from any other people search application.

One has to wonder … - if you thing your beach house on San Diego’s shores could need a new color and you Google for ’san diego painter’ the search engine will provide you with 2.25 million of these (according to its own account). The question is: how useful is this really? the obvious answer: NOT AT ALL! Even Google’s so-called ‘local results’ are actually no help at all - containing the web sites of the San Diego Convention Center, San Diego Patent Information and San Diego County Library Law. One more reason why Radiux is changing the search engine landscape ..

The Internet’s biggest attraction is also its largest short-coming: ANYBODY can publish ANYTHING, almost everywhere. The Internet is cluttered with SPAM sites and fake online identities. Anybody with a free email account can create a user at any of the popular services like YouTube, MySpace and Orkut. Although these websites claim to have millions of users, the realty is that most of these user accounts are probably set up for reasons other than using the services promoted by these sites.

MySpace has made plenty of news as a popular child predator online hang-out. And Facebook, who tried to differentiate itself by claiming that youngsters there are safer from sexual predators, is facing scrutiny from New York Attorney General Andrew Cuomo, who subpoenaed Facebook after he said the company did not respond to “many” complaints by investigators who were solicited for sex while posing as 12- to 14-year-olds on the site.

Developers of Radiux believe that the future of the Internet will be determined by online services whose users that can be held accountable for information they provide online.