Someone who fires up UrbanSpoon, shakes their phone and finds a restaurant – that’s a search. No, for real this time, I swear. Maybe. Well, you see, now it’s like.zombie SEO. It’s rumored to have died a few horrible deaths over a few years.
Partner sites include: IMDb, Yahoo Movies, Rotten Tomatoes, OpenTable, Yelp, CitySearch, UrbanSpoon, Cheap Flights, YouTube, MTV, Last.fm, Rhapsody, Pandora, and MSN, ReadWriteWeb reported. Bing is rolling out a new "tiles" feature in its SERPs.
If you have an iPhone, you might use a GPS-aware app like Yelp, Around Me, or UrbanSpoon to find one that suits your taste. It's then predicted to accelerate in 2011 and then reach $13 billion in 2013.
So UrbanSpoon et al.have some competition to contend with in you guys! Miriam Warren of Yelp is speaking at SES Toronto on June 9, on the panel "Follow the Carrot: Cool Mobile Apps" in the Geek Track.