EdinburghGuide.com is a long-running city guide to the Scottish capital. The site was launched before the turn of the millennium, at a time when the majority of people still turned to newspapers and magazines for their news and the internet was very much the wild wild web. Google was in its infancy and the most popular destination for search was a hierarchical directory of the internet compiled by humans at Yahoo!.
Against this backdrop, Scottish journalist Robert Alstead launched an Edinburgh-based ezine in January 1998, which later became EdinburghGuide.com (in August 1999).
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