Sites featuring Tags
Landing Pages for business listings on YellowBot brings together a number of user-generated content and 3rd Party content sources.
City Landing Pages from SuperPages. In addition to exposing YP content, provides weather, driving information, WIFI hotspots, and tag-oriented searches.
Following the FURNITURE tag from the results page illustrates some of the weakness in single word tag usage. Public Storage is a storage facility. It may be useful for 'furniture storage' but that's not what's implied by a search or refinement for 'furniture'.
Yahoo business listing landing page emphasizes reviews again (this time both user and web reviews). Photos of listings are solicited as well as adding user tags.
Yahoo Business Listing Landing Pages are more robust for some categories and listings than others. Business information has been summarized with details available in a pull-down in order to give more room to reviews.
Live defaults to a web search but knows enough to feature local results when a search includes a geographic qualification. Almost looking like "tags" , Related Searches are utilizing the search string and further qualifying it with other presumably "popular" modifiers.
You can get an entire list of the keywords they support to describe the sense of place.
The search was limited to just funky hotels in NYC. Notice this isn't a semantic search as it's just matching against keywords. "No funky smells" is not the sense of funky that is implied in the search.