Your are advised here about the last updates and major transformation that occurred on Business patrol since the launch of the service.

Country Links Update Part 2 Country Links Update Part 2 is done
We added more than 1 300 links and resources from Eastern Asia, Central Asia and South East Asia.
Selection covers 32 countries
This Asian selection is currently available in English, but will be soon applied
to the others languages.
Needless to say that in some cases (North Korea and Mainland China) it is difficult to offer our visitors a complete resources coverage.

The country links section of BusinessPatrol.com now covers near
7 000 links and resources from 153 countries.

Country Links Update Part 3
Our team is patrolling the web in search for resources and links for
North America and Central / South America.
These countries would be soon added.

Also, due to the amount of information and the numerous resources provided, we are also working on a design update of the country links pages.
This design update would be online later, by June 2008.

Many thanks for reading this, and enjoy your visit. • Thursday 10 April 2008 | General
Country Links Update Part 1 Country Links Update Part 1
The database of resources and country links has been cleaned.
We added new sub-sections :
Trade & Export, Travel & Tourism, Cities, Airlines, Directories, Business & Banking and Others Resources.
We selected arround 3 000 new resources and links that have been added to our cleaned database.
Most of the websites have been reviewed by our team.

Next updates scheduled :

Country Links Update Part 2
Asian resources will be added soon, in the next few days.

Country Links Update Part 3
Also, due to the amount of information and the numerous resources provided, we are also working on a design update of the country links pages.
This design update would be online later, by June 2008.

Many thanks for reading this, and enjoy your visit. • Friday 04 April 2008 | General
Portuguese language version update The Portuguese language version of BusinessPatrol.com has been fully updated.
Features includes all the functionalities of the main English interface (except the member area) and is equivalent to the newly update of the Spanish version.

Others languages versions will be improved to the same standard.
The next to be upgraded is the Polish version.
This operation would take several days and may -even if it is not suppoesed to- affect the website. • Thursday 13 March 2008 | Language Versions
Italian language version update The Italian language version of BusinessPatrol.com has been fully updated.
Features includes all the functionalities of the main English interface (except the member area) and is equivalent to the newly update of the Spanish version.

Others languages versions will be improved to the same standard.
The next to be upgraded is the Portuguese version.
This operation would take several days and may -even if it is not suppoesed to- affect the website. • Wednesday 12 March 2008 | Language Versions
French language version update The French language version of BusinessPatrol.com has been fully updated.
Features includes all the functionalities of the main English interface (except the member area) and is equivalent to the newly update of the Spanish version.

Others languages versions will be improved to the same standard.
The next to be upgraded is the Italian version.
This operation would take several days and may -even if it is not suppoesed to- affect the website. • Tuesday 11 March 2008 | Language Versions
Spanish language version update The spanish language version of BusinessPatrol.com has been fully updated.
Features includes all the functionalities of the main English interface (except the member area).

Others languages versions will be improved to the same standard.
The next to be upgraded is the French version.
This operation would take several days and may -even if it is not suppoesed to- affect the website.

More languages would be added shortly : Russian and German. • Monday 10 March 2008 | Language Versions
Business Patrol Marketplaces Business Patrol Marketplaces has been set-up online at the following address:
http://www.businesspatrol.com/directory/marketplaces/
It includes arround 680 selected marketplaces over 28 activity sectors.

We are currently patrolling the internet in order to achieve a new database of thousands of business related / country related links and resources. These would be soon available online.

BusinessPatrol.com is also reaching the amount of 4 000 visitors per day.
Thanks for all visitors for visiting us.

BusinessPatrol.com also wishes a happy new year to all our Chinese visitors (we know they are numerous).
So, Happy New Year China ! • Thursday 07 February 2008 | New Service
Business Patrol News on RSS Feeds Business Patrol News is now database driven and also available as an RSS Feed.
Feel free to add this feed to your RSS reader.
BusinessPatrol.com News RSS • Monday 28 January 2008 | New Service
Business Patrol Service is now available in Portuguese Business Patrol Service is now available in Portuguese pt.businesspatrol.com
More languages are comming soon. • Tuesday 01 January 2008 | Language Versions
BusinessPatrol.com upgrades BusinessPatrol.com upgrades
We've been upgrading our web service for the past days.
Improvements includes :
- Faster loading of the pages.
- Redesign of the home page and others services start pages.
- Upgrades of the engine.
- Anti-scam routine improvements have been setted up.
- A routine that re-affect the offers has been created.
This may affect your posted offers.
Next upgrades would include an extension of the number of sectors and the keyword search engine.
We are still working on it. Also, we are studying a service to allow posting without registration. • Thursday 01 November 2007 | General
Business Green: new web service starts Business Green: new web service starts
A new service based on ecology and green product has been launched at the address :
http://www.businessgreen.biz.
The web service is free of charges, and you can post green related offers, promote your products or services, access to hundred of green resources. Enjoy your visit !. • Monday 01 October 2007 | General
Countries Links Additions Middle East Resources : 14 countries added on the country links section
Business Patrol Countries Resources has been enriched with more than 350 new references covering 14 middle east countries. • Wednesday 01 August 2007 | General
Countries Links Additions 23 countries added on the country links section
Business Patrol Countries Resources has been enriched with more than 500 new references covering 23 more european countries. • Sunday 01 April 2007 | General
Business Green Update Complete update of the Green Service
Business Green has been updated to the last standard.
Green Members can post pictures attached to their trade members also. • Thursday 01 March 2007 | General
Product pictures search engine service starts Product pictures search engine service starts
Following the launch of the "Pictures posting service" last month, this service allows traders to find products they look for. The engine queries our database of pictures through captions and offer titles written by sellers or buyers.
Address : Product search • Saturday 10 February 2007 | New Service
Pictures posting service is starting Pictures posting service is starting (Open to trade members only).
Any member can post up to 3 pictures with his trade offer.
• Picture mustn't exceed 40 ko each
• JPEG pictures allowed only, any other format will be rejected
• caption max lenght: 100 chars (for each picture)
Log into your account to use this service • Friday 19 January 2007 | New Service
Major Update of BusinessPatrol.com BusinessPatrol.com wishes everyone an Happy New Year 2007
Complete interface and website update : BusinessPatrol.com release 6 starts.
We've been working on this new version for the past months. • Monday 15 January 2007 | General
900 African Links We added arround 900 links and resources for 55 africans countries.
Its was very difficult to select web sites from some specific countries, so, available resources may appear heterogeneous, but considering the whole continent, we listed the most interesting sites. • Thursday 10 August 2006 | New Service
African Trade Section Start of the African Trade Section: click here
Offers, B2B web sites and companies are listed by country (55 african states listed). • Saturday 05 August 2006 | New Service
Added functions on BusinessPatrol.com Added improvements on listings:
- Group trade offers by company and seller/buyer
- Group offers posted by a company or a seller on the daily list of offers
- Added link to specific offers from a single company (from listings, and offers pages)
The above elements have been included in the French, Spanish and Polish versions. • Thursday 03 August 2006 | General
BusinessPatrol.com : 6 years of B2B services BusinessPatrol.com Service's 6th birthday !
BusinessPatrol celebrates its sixth year of service since July 15th 2000.
New features would comes in the next weeks:
- The Africa Trade Service will start soon, with 54 countries and a full service (member area, posting,...) would be available in French
- A new search engine improvement is scheduled
- New languages are on the update schedule : portuguese, italian, german, russian
- New resources would be added to Business Green Service. • Saturday 15 July 2006 | General
Search Engine Update Search Engine Upgrade
The BusinessPatrol.com Search Engine has been upgraded with some new features.
Searches are now being clustered, and results can be expanded right on the listing (this part uses AJAX technology).
Searches are faster and results appears to be more accurate as we improved the code.
These features will be extended to all linguistic versions and others services within weeks. • Thursday 15 June 2006 | General
Business Green Resources Business Patrol Green Resources
We added a selection of more than 1 500 links as green resources.
You can go to this page.
More links and resource would be added as we are still collecting datas and sources. • Monday 05 June 2006 | New Service
Splainex chooses BusinessPatrol.com Co-branding example: Thanks to Splainex.com for choosing BusinessPatrol.com as additional content to their website.
You can watch out at the integration on this page. • Thursday 27 April 2006 | Partnerships
Business Green Service Starts Business Patrol Green: Start of service. Business Patrol Green is a new service dedicated to environmental, ecological, and green products, services, and processes. This service provide with resources, green leads and offers, web links.

This service is now located @ http://www.businessgreen.biz - Business Green • Wednesday 19 April 2006 | New Service
America's Trade Section Trading in the Americas (North, Central and South)
Start of the Americas Trade Section: click here
Thousand of references listed by country (27 States listed).
Direct access to the following topics:
Business Web Sites
Trade Leads
Companies • Saturday 01 April 2006 | New Service
Interruption of service BusinessPatrol.com has been moved to a new server, which caused an interruption of service.
BusinessPatrol.com's team apologizes for the inconvenience. • Thursday 30 March 2006 | General
Business Patrol Service is now available in Polish Business Patrol Service is now available in Polish:
pl.businesspatrol.com
Linguistics versions DO NOT include the member area services.
More languages are coming soon such as italian, portuguese, german... • Friday 17 February 2006 | Language Versions
Business Patrol Service is now available in Spanish Business Patrol Service is now available in Spanish:
es.businesspatrol.com
Linguistics versions DO NOT include the member area services.
More languages are coming soon such as, polish, italian, portuguese, german... • Wednesday 15 February 2006 | Language Versions
Business Patrol Service is now available in French Business Patrol Service is now available in French:
fr.businesspatrol.com
Linguistics versions DO NOT include the member area services.
More languages are coming soon such as, polish, spanish, german, italian...
Translations are going fast as we proceeded some changes in our systems.
However we're looking for translators for chinese, korean and japanese versions.
Feel free to email us at info@businesspatrol.com with proposals (arround 400 words to translate in one unique file). • Tuesday 14 February 2006 | Language Versions
Added Features on BusinessPatrol.com Some new features have been added to BusinessPatrol.com service.
Message Copy: Trade Members can receive copy of their sent trade messages
(Just check the box before to send your message)
Saved sites on Control Panel has been activated. You can store up to 30 links on your control panel. While you're browsing the business directory and the country links pages, you can save web references onto your account. Go to your Member Start Page, and click on "Saved Sites".

RANKING: Business Directory Rules Changed
We noticed how hard it is for new web sites to reach the first places on listings.
So, we allow listed members to increase their ranking on our Business Directory.
Rules are simples, once you've submitted your web site:
1. You've got to get your TAG Number (From your account, click on "increase your ranking")
2. Link back to us
3. The more you send us visitors, the higher you're listed
All information and the complete explanation are available from your member start page
(From your account, click on "increase your ranking") • Wednesday 08 February 2006 | New Service
North Africa and Middle East are fun North Africa and Middle East are fun !
Start of the North Africa and Middle East Trade Section: click here
Thousand of references listed by country (27 States listed).
Direct access to the following topics:
Business Web Sites
Trade Leads
Companies
We did some design make-up on the home page, to reorganize right contents accesses. • Friday 20 January 2006 | New Service
RSS Service Starts This month we introduce RSS Feeds on BusinessPatrol.com
it means you can be advised when a new item (web site or offers) has been posted.
You can get the last 10 items from your browser, your mailer or your RSS reader.
More information about RSS ?
Feel free to consult this introduction : What is RRS ?
You can also google the definition : Define RSS
RSS would be available on our Tradeleads service for all sectors,
and the Business Directory as well. • Wednesday 04 January 2006 | New Service
Scam detection routine has been upgraded Scam detection routine has been upgraded.
This routine has been working for severals months now,
and it has been proven very efficient by stopping and blocking many scammers (Not all the scammers though...).
So, it is not the perfect system, and we added a semi-automated system to check on possible scammers.
List of scammers caught is also published on the Member area, with name, used email, company name and origin (see black list). • Tuesday 20 December 2005 | General
Europe is fun ! Start of the European Trade Section: click here
Thousand of European references listed by country (25 States members and 20 others countries).
Direct access to the following topics:
European Business Web Sites
European Trade Leads
European Companies
Others geographics focuses would come next, such as Middle East Trade or Asia Trade, following the same model.
Also try this cool link to discover the Union: Europe is fun • Monday 12 December 2005 | New Service
BusinessPatrol Trade Engine for FireFox BusinessPatrol team provide the trade community with this simple little tool.
A click on the below link will add the BusinessPatrol Trade Search in the Search Bar in the upper-right corner of Firefox.
This will allow searches for trade offers directly from FireFox search engine bar.
(Temporily Suspended, will re-open later by 2008) • Friday 02 December 2005 | New Service
Link to us section Start of the Link to us section
Do you want to get targetted content from BusinessPatrol to pu on you web site ?
This section has been designed for that purpose.
Feel free to use the provided tools, including a complete self-service co-branding.
These tools are free of charges. So, enjoy...
(Links to us has been closed by now, replaced by RSS). • Tuesday 01 November 2005 | New Service
Closing of the TOP 3 service Cancellation and closing of the TOP 3 service
This service has been proven unsuccessfull, so, we decided to close it.
Consequently our web service has been modified.
More changes are currently being processed. • Saturday 01 October 2005 | General
BusinessPatrol.com : 5 years of B2B services BusinessPatrol.com: 5 years of service • Friday 01 July 2005 | General
Economic Reviews New section starts: Business Patrol Economic Reviews.
This section provides with a strong amount of economics datas.
Others reports and tools are coming soon, such as country to country comparison.
(Section has been temporarily suspended, will re-open soon) • Friday 24 June 2005 | New Service
Link Popularity and Search Engine Ranking Position - Link Popularity and Search Engine Ranking Position checkers have been added to the Trade Member area.
Tools will work for trade members who sent their web site on the Directory.
Logged Trade Members can check on others site's popularity also. • Tuesday 07 June 2005 | New Service
Major Update of BusinessPatrol.com - Added specials menu for all contents of the country links section
- Scam detection routine has been installed.
This program runs and scan emails to detect possible scam attempts.
This feature has been started to fight against con artists abusing our service in order to scam people.
If you want more information about it, feel free to email us at info@businesspatrol.com. • Monday 06 June 2005 | New Service
New additions - Added specials menu on the country links section
( suggest a link, suggest a country, most popular link & topics, last additions)
- Added hits and most popular wesites on the Directory section. • Friday 03 June 2005 | New Service
Major Update of BusinessPatrol.com BusinessPatrol.com release 5 is starting, with TOP 3 Service
(TOP 3 service has been closed by now).
We've been working on this version 5 for the last 8 months.
All databases have been cleaned off old resources (such as old offers).
Trade Advertising & Trade Express services have been merged.
Business Directory and Marketplaces Directory have also been merged on a larger Business Directory.
Many changes affects this new version of our web service. • Wednesday 01 June 2005 | General
BusinessPatrol.com : 4 years of B2B services BusinessPatrol.com Service's 4th birthday ! • Thursday 01 July 2004 | General
Headlines news integration Headlines news integration on Country Links.
You can read headlines news related to the country or the region, then, access to online press articles.
More specific news topics would be available later.
(Closed by now) • Thursday 01 April 2004 | New Service
Start of the Control Panel Interface Start of the Control Panel system for Trade Members.
Complete re-design of the Trade Member Home, to prepare the launch of the Premium Service. (Some elements are stil under development, other are already online).
Whole web site has been improved with some adds-on on specific areas. • Monday 01 March 2004 | General
BusinessPatrol.com Transfert Business Patrol's web site has been transfered to a new hosting company
to face trafic increase. • Sunday 01 February 2004 | General
Services Updates Start of the "Did you know ?" service : just a fun way to discover Businesspatrol's tips and information. Each point is randomly displayed
(Closed by now).
Last trade leads offers are now pushed on the home page.
Business Patrol web site has reached the technical limits of our current hosting company. So, we are looking for a new hosting company able to handle our case.
The web site transfert is scheduled for the February period.
Design update of the USA Buyer's guide section. • Monday 01 December 2003 | General
ElectronicHall.com Our partner ElectronicHall.com started his service
This web site focuses on electronic goods only.
Site available in three languages: English, French, German.

Note:
This web address has been closed by now.
Find the electronics section @ http://electronics.businesspatrol.com • Saturday 01 November 2003 | New Service
Major Update of BusinessPatrol.com BusinessPatrol.com Version IV starts
The new version of BusinessPatrol.com website is now online,
with enhanced services and some new features.
Premium Service is on test and check before launch. • Monday 01 September 2003 | General
BusinessPatrol.com : 3 years of B2B services BusinessPatrol.com Service's 3rd birthday !
The new version of BusinessPatrol.com website is on the starting block. We are making the last tests and check up before launch. • Tuesday 01 July 2003 | General
Added Countries Links This month, we added 9 more countries on the Country Links Section:
Estonia, Latvia, Lithuania, Slovakia, Czech Republic, Hungary, Slovenia, Malta and Cyprus. All are new EU members (Poland has been added several months ago).
The whole Country Links Section provide you with more than 1 800 selected links now.
We cleaned the dead links also. • Tuesday 01 April 2003 | New Service
Trade Members Area and Services Updates Added the Black List information about frauders we detected on BusinessPatrol.com. We are on the way to change some rules due to excessive abuse on some services operated by a minority of person. All options are open from automated to manual moderation, checking, etc...
Added a system selection for the Business Directory, Company listings and Trade Leads listings on the public area, allowing a easier search and selection of ads or items. • Saturday 01 March 2003 | General
Trade Members Area Update Trade Member Area update with the "DELETE AD" function
Last registered web sites link added to the public area • Wednesday 01 January 2003 | General
Added Mediterranean Worl section & Full Text Search Launch of the keyword search engine. Search on any section with keywords.
Start of the Mediterranean Worl section: 59 very usefull and interesting links to the Mediterranean and Arab World.
Adresse : http://www.businesspatrol.com/Mediterranean%20world-business-links-directory.html • Friday 01 November 2002 | New Service
Engine Update BusinessPatrol.com's engine complete update.
Update of the company search on the Member Area. • Tuesday 01 October 2002 | General
Golden Web Award for year 2002-2003 Businesspatrol.com is the winner of the Golden Web Award for year 2002-2003.
Start of the Company listing service on the public area. • Sunday 01 September 2002 | General
BusinessPatrol.com Update BUSINESS PATROL SECOND BIRTHDAY : 2 years of service.
New Trade member Area: new features added, new design and navigation.
B2B Marketplace Directory : major update and complete review of the selected web sites.
(Selection is now arround 700 links) • Monday 01 July 2002 | General
Trade Members Area Update Change of the offers post system due to problem encountered by some members when selecting activity sector and category. Thanks to members who sent us notices regarding this point. • Friday 01 March 2002 | General
Trade Members Area Update Complete update and new lay out on the Trade Member Area • Tuesday 01 January 2002 | General
USA Buyer's Guide Section Starts Opening of the USA Buyer's Guide Section, with Vertical Net.
Thousand of american companies are now available on Business Patrol.
(Closed by now). • Thursday 01 November 2001 | Partnerships
Service update Update of the Free Tools Section: added the Trade Feeder.(Closed by now)
Update of the Member Area with the fraud information notice. • Monday 01 October 2001 | General
Start of the Trade Members Area Opening of the Member Area.
http://www.businespatrol.com/members/
Start of the Trade Express Service.
(Trade Express Service has been merged as a trade leads section) • Saturday 01 September 2001 | New Service
Major Update of BusinessPatrol.com New Business Patrol Website.
Complete transformation and update of the whole Businesspatrol.com service Added China on the Country Links Section (China section has been closed).
Businesspatrol.com's birthday : One year of service. • Sunday 01 July 2001 | General
Tell us a friend service starts tart of the Tell Us a Friend Service.
This service has been replaced by SHARE IT tool by Jan.2008 • Thursday 01 March 2001 | New Serive
New addition to BusinessPatrol.com Added Poland and Russia on the Country Links Section.
Adresses :
- Poland Links
- Russia

Added the Free Tools Section. (Closed by now)
Added the Business Library Section. (Closed by now) • Thursday 01 February 2001 | Partnerships
English Courses Service Opening of the English Courses Service, with gofluent for a 6 months period.
(This section has been closed for now) • Monday 01 January 2001 | Partnerships
B2B Marketplaces Section Opening Opening of the B2B Marketplaces Section (with more than 800 links).
Currentlry listed : 680 links to marketplaces.
Adresse : http://www.businesspatrol.com/directory/marketplaces/ • Friday 01 December 2000 | New Service
Jobs area opening Opening of the Job Area with Jobpilot.
This service closed by Year 2002 • Friday 01 September 2000 | New Service
Start of the Trade Advertising Service. Start of the Trade Advertising Service. • Tuesday 15 August 2000 | New Service
Businesspatrol.com Website's Launch 12 Countries, 1 500 links on the Country Links Section.
Opening of the Commodities Section.
Adresse : http://www.businesspatrol.com • Saturday 15 July 2000 | General