PASADENA, Calif., Nov. 21 /PRNewswire/ -- Turkey, sweet potatoes and a whole lot of plumbing woes. As cooks nationwide serve up everything but the kitchen sink this Thanksgiving - and later shove it all down the drain and disposal - they'll help kick off the busiest plumbing season of the year, according to YELLOWPAGES.COM, a leading Internet Yellow Pages and local search site referenced monthly by millions of households across the country.

YELLOWPAGES.COM, owned jointly by AT&T and BellSouth, today released data revealing that more people search for plumbing businesses and services in November and December than in any other months of the year. Combined, the two months accounted for 36 percent of searches to plumbing-related headings in 2005, with December representing the single busiest time with 19 percent of the year's total searches.

"Our search data provides a colorful window into what businesses Americans turn to at various times of the year," said Charles Stubbs, president and CEO, YELLOWPAGES.COM. "Beyond early-bird specials and mistletoe, it appears the holiday season also brings with it a tendency to gunk up the pipes."

"It starts at noon before Thanksgiving dinner and continues through Friday," said Mike Haddad, owner of FMCO Plumbing in Pasadena, Calif. Haddad expects his plumbers to service 40 to 50 kitchen sinks on Thanksgiving, and the same number on Friday. On a normal day, FMCO unclogs 10 to 15 sinks.

The main culprit, according to Haddad, is grease, followed by egg shells, potato peels and celery fibers.

"All of December will be busy," Haddad said. "Everybody wants to finish their big cooking projects before the holidays."

The YELLOWPAGES.COM Network is on track to receive more than 1 billion consumer searches for local information this year.

About YELLOWPAGES.COM

YELLOWPAGES.COM LLC is a joint venture operation of AT&T and BellSouth Advertising and Publishing Corporation. Formed in late 2004, the company has recently launched the new YELLOWPAGES.COM site. The YELLOWPAGES.COM Nationwide Network provides exposure to up to 33.5 million monthly unique visitors for business information (comScore Media Metrix, August 2006).

*The unique visitor number for the YELLOWPAGES.COM Nationwide Network (Custom Entity) includes unduplicated visitors for the following sites: YELLOWPAGES.COM, AOL Yellow Pages, Switchboard, Yahoo! Local, Yahoo! Yellow Pages and AnyWho. YELLOWPAGES.COM advertisers receive exposure across Network sites

CONTACT: Ed Patterson of YELLOWPAGES.COM, +1-404-213-3106,
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