Mobile and online Search pondering: The power of now with Twittter and Google

Having been in mobile search for a long time, I fail to get excited and miss a heartbeat when the term mobile search is touted. Mobile search has vast potential but we are not there yet. No. Let me start again.

Incumbent based mobile search platforms for operators are there. But effective new start-up search engines [...]

MCN allwords gets global mobile search deal with Fox Mobile

Mobile Content Networks, mobile search specialist, today announced multiple deployments with Fox Mobile Distribution. The Fox Mobile content sites Jamba and Jamster will be using the MCN allwords vertical search engine worldwide. The service will initially launch in Thailand and Sweden, expanding to other regions later.
allwords is a tightly-focused, vertical paid search program. It’s specifically [...]

Yahoo! News at CES – Cinematic Internet and Connected TV Widget Engine

Yahoo!’s (NASDAQ:YHOO) Connected TV group today unveiled the next generation of technology and services for Internet-connected televisions.  The company has forged partnerships with top CE manufacturers to launch a widget-based user experience for TV that brings the best of the Web to a broad range of living room devices. Powered by the Yahoo! Widget Engine, [...]

Mobile Search: Verizon picks Microsoft

According to Reuters US mobile operator Verizon has chosen Microsoft to provide its mobile search services.

From the article:
Verizon Chief Executive Ivan Seidenberg said on Wednesday that Microsoft CEO Steve Ballmer would announce the deal later in the day at the Consumer Electronics Show in Las Vegas. Seidenberg, speaking at a Citigroup conference, gave no further [...]

Yahoo! Responds to Virgin Media Mobile Search Deal - GoMo News article

At the start of the month I wrote an article about  Virgin Media and Yahoo! see here:
I asked Yahoo! a few questions in the article and yesterday I received a response to specific questions that I highlighted.

Will Yahoo! provide search for on and off portal for Virgin Media?
Yahoo! Answer: Yahoo! oneSeach will be the on [...]

Taptu sign deal with mobile video streamer ZooVision to provide mobile search functions

Rating: ZooVision Taptu’s

The most recent announcement for Taptu bears a striking resemblance to the last news we heard from them. Very soon after Taptu dropped its text provider in favour of a new one, ZooVision has announced its dropping its search provider in favour of Taptu.

ZooVIsion specialise in streaming video to mobile phones, completely for [...]

Vlingo Mobile Search voice application for the iPhone

Voice search, just doesn’t go away from the radar.
Now Vlingo has created an iPhone voice application to compliment the services it already provides on the Blackberry.

I had a quick peak at the application but am yet to download it on my iPhone (http://www.vlingo.com/vlingo/iphone.jsp)
From the press release:
“The iPhone offers an innovative multitouch user interface that is [...]

Yahoo uses mobile advertising to educate mobile consumer base

Rating: Consumer unfamiliarity with smartphones is holding mobile internet back

Despite the prevalence of new, easy to use smartphones, the mobile internet just hasn’t taken off the way it had been hoped. People still find it to awkward to really take advantage of internet access on mobile devices. Yahoo’s mobile arm, Connected Life, believes that consumer [...]

Yahoo! oneSearch – new face of Yahoo! Portal? But what about the InfoSpace/Motricity mobile search deal?

I received an email this morning and my stomach turned.
What did the email say?
Virgin Media and Yahoo! today announced that Yahoo! oneSearch(TM) will power the Internet search experience on Virgin Media’s new, enhanced mobile portal. The Virgin Media mobile portal will be available to consumers on the 8th of December, and brings the world of [...]

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