When you just arrive in a new town and are looking for a good restaurant, the only way for most people is to use their cell phone and call a local directory, or use a search engine.
But besides finding a name and a location for the type of restaurant you’re looking for, these services won’t give you more information about the place.
To avoid possible disappointments, it’d be good to have reviews and ratings of the businesses you’ve found via a mobile search engine.
Google has recently enabled users to write reviews of businesses from their mobile phone.
If you go to Google from your cell and search for a business, then click on it, you’ll see a link to write a review about it and also to rate it (1-5 stars).
This is a really nice feature, it allows people to easily and quickly get reviews about a business and then decide if they want to go there or not.
Via Google Mobile Blog.
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Left by Bookmarks about Directory on March 18th, 2009
The whole mobile search is really giving me a headache. I don’t even seem to be able to get my mobile site indexed.
Left by Wedding Photography on November 21st, 2009
I really appreciate this wonderful post about Local Mobile Search, that you have provided for us. I assure this would be beneficial for most of the people.
Left by Pick Torrent on February 25th, 2010