Sites
Clicking on the screenshot of the home page of a site will take you to sequential walk-through of the use of that site.
Auto Trader Canada is owned by Yellow Pages Group which owns YellowPages.ca. The site combines both new and used vehicle search.
BuySell is a pure classifieds site managed by Trader Canada/Yellow Pages Group Canada.
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.
DasOertliche.de is the German Local White Pages site.
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.
Eniro Denmark provides Yellow Pages, White Pages, and Web search.
Eniro Sweden provides Yellow Pages, White Pages, Classifieds and Web search.
Goldenpages.be is the main Yellow Pages site for Belgium.
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.
Local Aggregator under Yellow Pages brand for Norway. Provides Yellow Pages, White Pages, Classifieds and Web Searc.
Jobs classifieds site in France. Apparently an aggregator to other employment sites.
Kijiji (village in Swahili) is an eBay classifieds company. It's second to Craigslist in visitors.
Local.ch has established a strong position in Switzerland bringing in a number of additional local content feeds (classifieds for example). They also have a very robust mechanism for refining some searches by time.
U.S. Yellow Pages, White Pages, Classifieds and Jobs site.
Very successful classified site in Spain. Owned by eBay and powered by Kijiji.
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.
Pages Jaunes updated its overall brand recently and emphasizes the focus on local (maps, weather, traffic) and imagery (3D in some towns).
Yellow Pages for Italy featuring a map-centric parallel site.
RentersNews.ca is one of the Real Estate classifieds properties owned by Yellow Pages Group Canada. It's sisters include home sales, commercial properties, new homes, cottages and home & decor sites. Some of these sites are associated with magazine properties 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
The Yell Facebook application has some of the best production values of any YP's Facebook applications. Still, has some usability challenges.
Yellow Pages Canada is probably the first site to integrate with Facebook in a prominent way.
YPG's Facebook application clean and straight-forward. Built around search and creating lists.
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.