Search Engines
Due to the innovative nature of .tel domains, search engines can discover new opportunities when indexing .tel data. Some traditional search engines can index the .tel web pages - representations of .tel data created by the TelProxy service. Other search engines can implement direct DNS crawlers that can speedily index .tel domains directly from the DNS.
Because .tel domains contain structured data with descriptive labels, search engine algorithms can easily identify the type of data published in a .tel and display it accordingly. With .tel, a search algorithm does not need to identify a string of numbers as a telephone number because the service type for this contact item contains "voice-tel" already.
All .tel pages also have embedded hCards, geo-location related meta tags, and other optimization tools to help Google and other search engines effectively index .tel data, and get .tel domains higher in rankings; for more information on search engine optimization, please see SEO in .tel.
TelPages
TelPages is the official search engine by Telnic that
indexes all .tel data on a daily basis. The search facility includes a basic search, as well
as advanced directory-style search, location-based search and results filtering by various
types of contact information. The search engine has a
public TelPages API for 3rd party applications.
The same search facility is built into all .tel pages by default,
and can be disabled via the .tel control panel settings.
