For years, I've done the following on every yelp search: filter -> sort by -> rating.<p>I would probably jailbreak my phone just to be able to lock that preference in. Of course, there's a lot of money in that search option being default set to 'best' or 'recommended' or whatever it is they call it.<p>And, it's of course awesomely useful, and I use it constantly. But I never don't sort, that's a testament to how useful the database they've built is. It's worth like triple the effort of another search method to get the data.