Tag: Mobile search

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Twitter’s deals with Google, Microsoft signal bright future for mobile search

Published: October 23, 2009

Twitter’s recent deals to make its users’ tweets available to both Google and Microsoft’s Bing search engine point to the future of mobile search: real-time information.

Google, Yahoo Q3 results show promise for mobile advertising

Published: October 22, 2009

Google and Yahoo exceeding expectations for their Q3 revenue, buoyed in part by each company’s mobile initiatives, is a sign that the worst of the recession may be over for the advertising market.

Google syncs mobile to desktop search history

Published: October 2, 2009

Ever do a search on a desktop computer and then repeat the same search again later from a mobile phone? Wish it was not necessary to retype the same search terms over and over again?

Former Google exec deems mobile search ineffective

Published: September 10, 2009

Deeming mobile search ineffective, former head of Google product marketing Sanjeev Agrawal has come up with a new approach to information on the go: Aloqa.

How location-based searches are changing mobile

Published: August 25, 2009

Location-based mobile search is becoming an essential channel for merchants seeking to drive business from local search.

Find Starbucks app developer goes it alone without brand

Published: August 12, 2009

The developer of the Find Starbucks search application for Google's Android decided to release it independently when Starbucks Coffee Co. declined to partner with him.

How will Microsoft-Yahoo deal affect mobile?

Published: July 30, 2009

Yahoo and Microsoft claim that their deal will be a game-changer for Web search and will drive innovation. But mobile seems to have gotten only a cursory nod from the alliance.

Search engines fail users in finding mobile sites: Mobi Tech

Published: July 24, 2009

Mobi Tech International Inc. has tossed its hat into the ring of mobile search with the release of the Mobi iNet mobile application, challenging category leaders Google and Yahoo to a fight.

Google optimizes search results for feature phones in 38 languages

Published: July 3, 2009

One of Google's mobile search team's goals is to bring users the comprehensiveness of Google's Web search while optimizing the experience for handsets in the appropriate language.

YellowSpaces creates local search app for iPhones

Published: May 20, 2009

Local search engine YellowSpaces Inc. has launched a new application for iPhone and iPod Touch users called "iLPS."