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I have been online for years and had never heard about that site. So, I guess for me... it doesn't matter.

To quote the great hthth, "Meh"

Matters to me I think, because when we're looking for new things to do (we aka my fiancée and I, or my friends) we hit up triangle.citysearch.com (Raleigh/Durham area) and find cool stuff. The new design is nicer looking but I think less functional than the previous design. Now it's a bit difficult for me to find the main areas like I did before.

Looks like a "if it ain't broke, don't fix it" scenario. I usually take a peek prior to roadtrips and it doesn't seem like the redesign brought any more functionality to the site. I'll still use it though.

Why use CitySearch when there is something like Yelp?

Yelp sucks bigtime unless you live in a large city, and also it suffers from the same problem as the other newish "local" sites in that they may be big in the Web 2.0 industry but nobody has heard of them in the real world.

For example, a well-known Mexican restaurant here in Raleigh has 39 reviews at Citysearch, but only 2 at Yelp. Another example is that there are so many club/bar listings that they need to break it into 30+ subcategories, whereas Yelp only has 8 Raleigh-area bars that have any reviews attached to them, almost worthless.

Just goes to show that just because a site is older and more established, it doesn't mean the Web 2.0 version of it is any better just because it uses light colors and bouncy type. And to be honest, the redesign of Citysearch is 10x better than Yelp's design, guess Yelp doesn't have them beat at all. Well maybe in San Francisco...

Yeah I'm not too sure about this one. I know a lot of the Web 2.0 tend to like Yelp because of the heightened emphasis on interaction in comparison to CitySearch, which I've heard people accuse of its reviews being unreliable. At the same time, just like CitySearch, I have disagreed with a large majority of the reviews about business establishments on Yelp. With CitySearch, I never really took the reviews at face value in the first place. You know that only a few certain, outgoing types will review, anyway, and if you've experienced establishments firsthand and your own personal experience differs that much from the Yelp! majority, then you're not going to find extreme additional value using Yelp! reviews over CitySearch, I guess.

That being said, I use CitySearch for address and phone number information more than anything, to recollect a place that was recommended to me from actual word of mouth. I'm with jensized, in that if it's not broke don't fix it.

If I were visiting an unfamiliar city, though, I would think to use Yelp--before reading Mike's reply.

This is the first I'd ever heard of Citysearch, so uh...