uhhm... in italy we have this kind of service for years (I remember back in the '80s when there was still one national telephonic company there was this number

uhhm... in italy we have this kind of service for years (I remember back in the '80s when there was still one national telephonic company there was this number "12" you could call to have infos). There is now a profusion of heritage (like http://www.1240.it http://www.1240.it, http://www.892424.it http://www.892424.it, etc).