Verizon just announced [prnewswire.com] that the divestment of Verizon Information Services was going to be a spin-off, not a sale. This includes the spinoff of the Verizon Superpages.com website, which has been recently noted as one of the tops in marketshare and traffic for internet yellow pages and local search destinations.

(Disclosure: I'm an employee of Superpages, so I really can't say much due to SEC rules, though I did blog a bit about it.)

I've been with Superpages.com for nearly 10 years, which is about a millenium in internet time. I can remember back in the dot-com boom when many of us here wished that we'd be spun off, like many of the (at-that-time) lucrative startups. Looks like our old wish is sorta coming true now, although the world's turned many times since those early years, and we're still part of that original GTE Directories Corporation that includes printed yellow pages as well.