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Top 10 Local Search Community Websites By skylab [1 more lists]
The top 10 local search sites, determined using Google Trends for Websites and lots of gut feeling.
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YellowPages
The traditional Yellow pages, but online. The service allows you to search local listings for businesses, as well as contacts. More - 2
Another company founded in 2004 by two former PayPal employees, Yelp is a local reviews website covering almost 40 states. Users write and read reviews about anything from their favorite hole in the wall restaurant to the worst downtown club. Additionally Yelp offers social networking features: the ability to add friends, groups, events, talk in forums or message contacts. The idea behind this is that users will trust their friends reviews more than others. Yelps competition comes from Citysearch, Insider Pages, Yahoo Local and formerly Judys Book. More - 3
Yellowbook
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Citysearch
Citysearch is an online guide that offers information and recommendations regarding local businesses including restaurants, shops, bars, hotels, and others. According to metropolitan area, people can search for places to go as the site contains information for venues in practically all major US cities. Besides its over 14.5 million business listings, Citysearch is also helpful because it provides informative user reviews and ratings. Having recently acquired Insider Pages in March 2007, Citysearch now boasts over 600,000 customer reviews that let people find the best places to go across the country. More - 5
Urbanspoon.com
Urban spoon allows users to find everything about local restaurants. Users can read user submitted recommendations and reviews as well as from critics. More - 6
Tupalo
Tupalo is a social local search community, based in Vienna, Austria, containing ... More - 7
Insider Pages
Insider Pages is a user generated review site for local businesses. The site, originally founded by idealab, has ;nearly 600,000 customer reviews of local businesses in categories ranging from dentists, doctors and hairstylists to plumbers, realtors and restaurants. In January of 2007, Insider Pages reportedly laid off 2/3 of their total staff. Two months later the company was acquired by Citysearch. Competitors include Intuits Zipingo and Yelp. More - 8
Qype.com
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Menuism.com
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