I’m glad to be back home in Sydney, but Yelp is one of the few things that I still miss from living in the States. The restaurant tips site morphed into a feature-packed, heavily trafficked business review app for phones — and seriously craps on anything we’ve got here: I’m looking at you Google Places and TrueLocal. So we’re ripe for Yelp’s picking as they team up with Telstra-Sensis-Yellow Pages to open doors in Oz.
Even before it got fancy features like daily deals, restaurant menus and an augmented reality business finder, Yelp helped me find my dentist, doctor, and countless great dinners.
San Francisco was seriously Yelp review mad (people would bust out reviews while still eating), and it definately remains to be seen how popular it will be here. They hope to launch by the end of the year — so expect to see stickers showing up at the front of your favourite local restaurant soon.
App wise, Yelp is seriously multi-platform: they’ve launched native iPhone, Android, BlackBerry, Windows Phone 7, and Palm Pre apps. Yeah, Yelp rocks. [Sensis Australia]
Namarrgon
Thursday, July 21, 2011 at 2:21 PMBeen using Urban Spoon, and occasionally Google Places. What are the advantages of Yelp?
Steve
Thursday, July 21, 2011 at 2:34 PMWill be psyched to see how it stacks up against Urbanspoon or Google Places.
icurafu
Thursday, July 21, 2011 at 4:14 PMAnyone else stop using eatability after the tragic update? It used to be a wonderful restaurant-centric site. Now it’s a mess.
Labrys
Thursday, July 21, 2011 at 4:37 PMOh god yes.
I used to love eatability now it is truly terrible. I can’t find anything on that site!
Steve
Thursday, July 21, 2011 at 5:35 PMEatability needs an app big time, otherwise it won’t be able to compete.
Jenifer
Friday, July 22, 2011 at 1:55 AMI can’t believe someone just asked how Yelp compares to Urbanspoon and Google Places. It doesn’t! It’s way better!! A lot of the Google Places content is actually Yelp content, so if you like Google Places, you’ll LOVE Yelp.
Rod
Friday, July 22, 2011 at 12:38 PMCan’t wait. Urbanspoon is horribly designed and it frustrates me that I have to go there to get reviews.
Andy
Saturday, July 23, 2011 at 1:13 AMAbout time, I’m on a USA trip right now and would have missed so many awesome places without yelp.
Chris
Tuesday, August 16, 2011 at 9:56 AMJust came back from the states and Yelp was our virtual tour guide. Seriously looking forward to Yelp in Melb.
Frank Smarrelli
Wednesday, October 5, 2011 at 10:56 AMI’m from Melbourne and I hear so much about Yelp from my American friends. I positively can’t wait for this web phenomenon to hit our Australian territory. This is great news!
Shelley
Tuesday, October 11, 2011 at 12:16 AMJust got back from my 3rd 6 week holiday in the States.. And I love Yelp!
Can wait for it to come to Australia.. It will hopefully sort out the crap service and food some of the places here serve up.
I used it for everything from hairdressers, laundry, meals, coffee and supermarkets to gyms and yoga studios!
Christain Whamond
Saturday, November 12, 2011 at 11:36 AMYelp coming to Australia will truly be a game changes especially patterning with the Biggest Media outlet in Australia, Sensis Yellow pages.
http://www.whamond.net
Jack Media
Monday, January 16, 2012 at 8:17 PMIt’s good to know that Yelp will be in Australia too.. Definitely a lot of Australians will like the site and its services.