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Restaurants
Find great dinning wherever you are with mobile friendly resataurant search, review and rating sites.

City and Campus Guides
Tools to help you find your way through the urban jungle

Google Places
Content Usability
Google's Places mobile web based local search has added a number of features that make it my favorite local mobile search engine. (Read More...)

Local.com
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A local seach engine with a simple, efficient user interface. (Read More...)

Bing Local
Content Usability
Bing (formerly Live Search) has a very good implementation of Local Search which remembers your most recent entries and has the clearest maps I've (Read More...)

Yahoo Local
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Yahoo's Local search is location aware. Enter a type of business name or type of business and  results sorted by rating or distance. (Read More...)

Nokia Places
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Local search from Nokia Maps. Results include address, a small map and click to call phone numbers

FrontPlace
Content Usability
Geo-location enabled mashup that lets you see nearby places and get info about them from Facebook, Google and the Russian search engine Yandex. (Read More...)

YP.com
Content Usability
Yellow Pages, White Pages, Reverse Phone Lookup, Reverse Address Lookup, Neighbor Look-up, Mapquest Maps and Driving Directions

City Forums
Content Usability
A new geolocation enabled mobile mashup from Dmitry Namiot that creates a user forums for discussing local points of interest. (Read More...)

Mobile Discussions
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Mobile Discussions is a mobile web app for getting local answers to local questions. (Read More...)

Yalwa
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Mobile edition of Yalwa, a local business search engine for all major cities in the United States. (Read More...)

Parking Assistant
Content Usability
A neat Google maps mashup the uses the Geolocation JavaScript API to create a map showing nearby parking lots. (Read More...)

BestParking
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This is a handy mobile webapp for finding the best prices for parking nearby. (Read More...)

SelfStorage
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Online directory of over 5,000 US self storage facilities. Search by city, address or zip. Listings include maps, photos, prices, hours. (Read More...)

Superpages
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Superpages which was primarily an U.S.only online phone directory has expanded their mobile offering to become a full blown local search engine. (Read More...)

Nelso Mobile
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Local search engine covering major cities in Europe and the U.S. Search for restaurants, bars, entertainment, services, shopping, and more. (Read More...)

DexKnows
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DexKnows is a local search engine listing U.S. restaurants, transportation, entertainment and shopping. It's from R. H. (Read More...)

NYC Library Search
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A searchable directory of New York City public library locations.  Listings include hours, address, driving directions and maps. (Read More...)

CA Dept of Education
Content Usability
I just found a link to the California Department of Education's mobile side over at the Oh! Mobile Directory. (Read More...)

BC Hydro
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Realtime power outage information for customers of BC Hydro, the public utility which delivers electricity to 95% of the population of Canada's (Read More...)

Ameren IL MO Power
Content Usability
I think this is a mobile first.  Ameren, an electric power utility serving 1. (Read More...)

SuperPagesPR
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Yellow Pages directory for Puerto Rico in English and Spanish. (Read More...)

Brabys (ZA)
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Brabys is a searchable online business directory for South Africa. (Read More...)

Browzit
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Search for businesses worldwide. My test queries returned a high percentage of non-local or irrelevant results. (Read More...)

Cellfo (ZA)
Content Usability
Local business and job searches, TV program guide and movie theater search for South Africa. (Read More...)

Ticketmaster
Content Usability
I've been pretty disappointed with attempts to offer online event ticketing via the mobile web. (Read More...)

Ticketline Mobile
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Find and purchase tickets for concerts, gigs, events in the UK. (Read More...)

Diaroogle Toilet Search
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Crowd sourced directory of free public toilets in Manhattan, New York City. (Read More...)

Earthcomber
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I've added Earthcomber, a new mobile web local search site to the WapReview direcctory and Yeswap.com mobile portal under Search/Local. (Read More...)

Gasbuddy
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Find the lowest prices for gasoline by US zip code.

Yell.com
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Shopping and Yellow Pages search for the U.K. Search by business name and/or category. Features zoomable maps and driving or walking directions. (Read More...)

Tickets.com
Content Usability
Tickets.com, a major online ticket broker owned by MLB.com (Major League Baseball)  has launched a mobile version of their service at mobile. (Read More...)