Kudzu.com

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Kudzu.com

Type	Private
Founded	June 2005
Headquarters	Atlanta, GA, USA
Key people	Tom Bates, Vice President, General Manager
Industry	Business ratings and reviews / Local Search
Website	www.kudzu.com

Kudzu.com is an online local search company that aggregates user reviews and ratings on local businesses, merchants and service providers. Kudzu.com is owned and operated by Cox Search, Inc., a subsidiary of Cox Enterprises.

1 Site features
2 Features
3 References
4 External links
- 4.1 General
- 4.2 Articles

[edit] Site features

Kudzu.com is an online directory of professional service providers. It starts with a database of over 13 million businesses and lets them build structured profiles to describe what they offer. Profiles can include marketing descriptions, photos of work performed, videos, coupons, professional affiliations and credentials, etc. It also lets consumers provide user-generated reviews and ratings of local businesses. Site visitors interested in finding a service provider may search or browse profiles by service rendered, specialty etc. as well as by geographic location and "star rating," among other fields, to find businesses that are the right fit for their particular home and personal needs.

The website originally served the market of Atlanta (with 135,000 listed businesses), and expanded to Arizona (80,000 businesses), San Diego (80,000 businesses) and Las Vegas (50,000 businesses) in the fall of 2006. In the fall of 2007, Kudzu.com expanded its listings on a national level, offering business information and the ability for customers to rate and review businesses in all markets across the U.S. ^[1]

[edit] Features

Some of Kudzu.com's features include:

Merchant written profiles
Lists of services, brands, styles, etc.
Multiple reviews per business
Mapping capabilities
Star ratings and attribute scoring (for Quality, Serivce and Price)
Merchant-uploaded video
Merchant-uploaded photos
Printable online coupons
"Virtual House," where users can click on parts of the house, room-by-room, to get appropriate directory listings. Clicking on a fish aquarium in the master bedroom, for instance, leads to listings for pet stores. Clicking on the rug leads to listings for maid services.