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Summary:   The City Search travel website is a search engine that provides a myriad of information about local businesses and service providers in cities within the United States. Aimed at business and leisure travelers as well as locals, City Search travel provides all the tips and help you’ll need to learn about your destination city, decide where to stay, and find out about all the things to see and do while there.

The City Search travel website is a search engine that provides a myriad of information about local businesses and service providers in cities within the United States. Aimed at business and leisure travelers as well as locals, City Search travel provides all the tips and help you’ll need to learn about your destination city, decide where to stay, and find out about all the things to see and do while there.

The CEO of the City Search company is Briggs Ferguson. Ferguson is a seasoned businessman, with most of his experience tied to the music industry, both online and off.

City Search, which can be found at citysearch.com, uses categories to make things easier for users. Simply type in the name and state of the city you’d like to research, and you’ll be taken to a page with a menu of categories to investigate, including restaurants, bars and clubs, hotels, shopping, spa and beauty, movies, events, and maps. There is even a “More Categories� tab that provides links from the Yellow Pages to area services and businesses.

City Search allows businesses to pay for preferred status on their pages, so some of the results may be biased towards those that do. The program is called “Pay for Performance�, and provides those who sign up with premium placement and extra exposure on the site.

Investigating the site further, you’ll find reviews and editorial content about many of the businesses and services listed there. City Search claims to be the leading resource for restaurant reviews on the web, and indeed drives an impressive amount of traffic through their dining reviews. Users are encouraged to add their own reviews as well.

In late 2006, City Search introduced two mobile services to keep up with the changing technological demands of their users. The Send-to-Phone service allows people to send information from pages on the site, including search results, to their cell phones. The user just needs to click on a “send to phone� button on the page they want to send, and then enter their cell phone number to receive their chosen pages.

The other mobile service available through City Search is the CS411 Mobile Search. This allows users to access City Search databases through their mobile devices, and get search results via text messaging. The service is simple to use, and would come in handy if you’re looking for a restaurant or other business or service on the fly.

City Search is a terrific and useful resource for people who need more information than a simple listing of businesses and services in any given city.