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MOBILE Citysearch is a leading local search service, providing the most up-to-date information to over eight million people a month on businesses, from restaurants and retail, to travel and professional services. Citysearch empowers users to make informed decisions about where to spend their time and money by delivering more than a million editorial and user reviews and ratings of local businesses. Through its unique Local Pay For Performance (PFP) service, Citysearch enables businesses to capture their most relevant customers online while paying only for the leads received. In 2006, Citysearch invested in a local search property called Insider Pages.
FACTS
- Founded in 1996 and headquartered in West Hollywood, California with approximately 400 employees, Citysearch provides the most enhanced, free local information available online, covering approximately 18 million business listings nationwide
- Approximately 14.6 million monthly unique users (comScore May 09)
- Best of Citysearch polls give users the opportunity to provide up-to-date recommendations and reviews for restaurants, bars and nightlife. This has one of the most unique features of the site
- In March 2009, Citysearch was relaunched to combine social and mobile tools with geo-targeted search technology to take the site from an urban city guide to a local neighborhood community
- Over 75,000 locales in Citysearch's database
Insider Pages was created to help people find the best local businesses through recommendations from their friends and neighbors. At InsiderPages.com, people share reviews of local businesses and find great services they can trust. Launched in 2004 and headquartered in the San Francisco Bay area, the site has over 800,000 customer reviews from members across the U.S. and over two and half million people visit each month to get the Insider scoop on local businesses.
Urbanspoon is a leading online local restaurant guide that aggregates restaurant reviews from across the web, from newspapers, professional food critics to bloggers and diners. Available online or via its popular iPhone application, Urbanspoon provides reviews for restaurants throughout the United States, Canada, the United Kingdom and Australia.