Yahoo Local
Yahoo Local completely re-launched its brand mid-summer. Is placing strong emphasis on their user reviews and ratings
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Yahoo redesigned Yahoo Local, driving immediately to a city page based on your IP address. Reviews take center stage while a new "guide" feature has been added.
Results are list-centric. Ratings and reviews (along with their solicitation) are emphasized. Refinement has been de-emphasized.
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 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.
Find Nearby is available on Yahoo Maps either by searching for a category or by selecting pre-defined categories.
Find Nearby Results are placed on a Map. Can get directions and see live traffic reports on the Map.
Refinement is available in the Find Nearby view of Yahoo Maps. Refinement by category and rating is available.
In the personalized section of Yahoo Local, your activity is recorded (recently saved, viewed, and searched) as well as your reviews and 'collections'. In addition, there is apparently the ability to see comments on your reviews from others.
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.
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.