United States
Local 2.0 Sites in United States
Circos lets you find "funky hotels with internet access in New York". It crawls user reviews for keywords and uses those for filtering and comparison.
DexKnows runs in 14 states in the western United States. It's heavily promoted on TV and powered by LMI.
Dex White Pages provides people search primarily in 14 states in the Western United States.
Google Maps comes at local from the map perspective exclusively. They even abandoned Local Google branding for the Google Maps branding. They don't provide landing pages but instead concentrate providing all information on flyouts on the map.
U.S. Yellow Pages, White Pages, Classifieds and Jobs site.
Microsoft Live brought out "1 Click Directions" recently. It's an interesting approach. Instead of your needing to supply a starting direction, Microsoft is providing directions coming from North, South, East and West using major highways as the starting reference point.
Oodle is the third largest site behind Kijiji and Craigslist. It's an aggregator so it doesn't have listings of its own. They are powering Yell in the UK and are in Canada as well.
Superpages has re-done their site extensively, recently adding a significant emphasis on user-generated content.
Yahoo Local completely re-launched its brand mid-summer. Is placing strong emphasis on their user reviews and ratings
YellowBook redesigned their home page, streamlining it dramatically. Search still sucks.
YellowBot is a relatively new entrant but has enjoyed a great deal of success in SEO.
YellowPages enjoys strong brand recognition but is not necessarily leading with consumer acceptance.