Sites featuring Ratings
Results page for YellowBot prominently features the tags and ratings. Uses Google Maps and promotes the use of a larger Map View.
Landing Pages for business listings on YellowBot brings together a number of user-generated content and 3rd Party content sources.
Yahoo Local provides "shopping" only in the sense that they provide a way to browse specific retail shopping categories and expose again their ratings and reviews.
Refinement is available in the Find Nearby view of Yahoo Maps. Refinement by category and rating is available.
A Weekend Guide to a city was introduced by Yahoo Local. This featured some editorial commentary on things to do but this was generic and not specific to the actual city. Only feeds for movies ane events are relevant to the city. Highly rated restaurants are featured.
Results are list-centric. Ratings and reviews (along with their solicitation) are emphasized. Refinement has been de-emphasized.
Yahoo has more reviews in more popular categories. All reviewers are Yahoo members.
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.
Results seemingly accurate and relevant. Actions include rate and review (which never makes sense as part of the search results) along with add to a list.
Google Maps supports ratings and reviews from both users and from 3rd parties (although the user-created reviews don't seem to work).