Are sites like Switchboard.com good for Google?

Results do not seem to relate to the search

[GodLikeLotus]

It seems to me that sites like:
superpages.com
switchboard.com
yellowpages.com
are making a Joke of Googles results. These sites seem to be dominating the SERPS for just about anything if you add a city/state to your search, then when you visit their page they dish up results that seem to exclude what it is was we were originally searching for.

[jimbeetle]

Yeah, anything that hurts results isn't good for an SE.

G might argue that the results are relevant because the sites list names, addresses and phone numbers for "widget places in new york" but I don't buy that. Since I'm doing an internet search I expect to find internet links for "widget places in new york".

So, yeah, I consider results from these directories useless for my needs.