Category Archives: Mobile Search
Searchme has the right idea, with its mobile visual search on Ovi
Searchme has announced that it’s on-line “visual search” service is now available as a downloadable app on the Nokia Ovi Store. Anyone with a Symbian-based Nokia S60 can pick the application up for free by pointing their browser at the content store.
What is Visual Search?
Simply, it’s a type of search that returns picture results. Instead [...]
MCN powers SMS search for SMART Communications
Smart Search is a new service launched in partnership with MCN (Mobile Content Networks) and the Philippines mobile operator SMART Communications.
What is Smart Search?
Smart Search is an SMS based search service. It concerns music content and basically any text query on music can be send to the shortcode 7600.
How much?
At launch it will be free [...]
Search engine Leapfish elimates clicks by searching as you type
An interesting new search service got sent our way recently. Leapfish does two things that might attract your attention. First, it searches multiple portals simultaneously. Ok, that’s not exactly new – there are a bunch of search aggregators out there. But Leapfish also presents your search results in realtime. It updates the results as you [...]
New Flash Lite application: KiTwitts search Twitter via mobile with keywords
Developer Biskero has launched a new Flash Lite application that allows users to search Twitter via keywords.
The mobile application also servers mobile advertising based on the keyword and location of the device.
It can be downloaded on GetJar here: http://www.getjar.com/software/universal/all/Search/kitwitts
Mobile search for China Telecom will be coming from mInfo
mInfo claims that it’s mobile search services use a natural language technology that make it’s search services far faster and easier to use than others. Claims like that would be easy to brush over, except that China Telecom today announced that mInfo is providing it’s Complete Search services for all 80 million of it’s wireless [...]
Privus Mobile iPhone application tracks down unknown callers
Privus Mobile has launched it’s mobile caller ID service as an iPhone app. The service allows a quick way for people to find info on unknown numbers that have called their device.
With iPrivus, you enter a phone number and the app retrieves as much info as it can about the owner of that number – [...]
Google study suggests mobile search has “arrived”, but mobile browser search is a very different thing
Spotted over at Media Post, Google has announced results from a recent study into mobile search patterns. The search giant has announced that the mobile search behavior on iPhone and Android phones has changed to the point where mobile search is as successful as on-line search. But is Google looking too narrowly at smartphone searches? [...]
Zumeo and mJob combine mobile social networking and job hunting
Two highly web-connected recruitment firms have just joined forces. mJob is an agency founded by an SEO expert that focuses purely on mobile recruitment. Zumeo is a recruitment agency and a consultancy firm that helps both employees and employers use social media to fill positions. From today, all Zumeo subscribers will be able to access [...]
Niall Cusack CTO visibility mobile on mobile seo and metatxt.org
Cian O’ Sullivan caught up with the CTO of mobile SEO business visibility mobile to talk mobile search strategy, metatxt and why use GoMobileSEO. The interview is filed at visibility mobile HQ in Waterford, Ireland.
GoMo 1-to-1: Visibility Mobile from Cian O’Sullivan on Vimeo.
Baidu mobile search on Samsung devices?
Mobile search company Baidu has apparently teamed up for mobile search services with Samsung and Lenovo.
Source: http://www.jlmpacificepoch.com/newsstories?id=147217_0_5_0_M
This is apparentlythe first of several new services including one called Zhang Shang Baidu set for Japanese market.
More positive news as Baidu’s Q1 results also looked very good see: http://online.wsj.com/article/BT-CO-20090427-720998.html
So what is Baidu mobile search?
Well. Baidu is a Chinese [...]
RTL’s mobile site kochbar gets it right in Germany
I was doing something strange the other day. Its called relaxing and as I sipped tea on my sofa up popped an advert for mobile.kochbar.de. It is the mobile site of the show that I was flicking through. I guess its kochbar -but I have no idea as I am one of these awful people that never [...]
Twitter search service connects you with shopping assistant over your mobile device
IMshopping is a service that is trying to take advantage of Twitters power as a search engine. Launching in beta today, it connects users to human assistants both on the web and through the messaging service. By simply messaging @imshopping with a question about shopping, users will receive detailed answers and recommendations.
The main IMshopping website [...]
Yowza mobile coupon application for iPhone has grass roots celebrity support
It was bound to happen eventually. We’ve had celebrity-centric apps on iPhone for a long time now. But Yowza, a mobile coupon application for iPhone, takes it one step further. The co-founder of Yowza is Greg Grunberg, star of popular TV show Heroes. With grass roots celebrity support, Yowza has a lot of money to [...]
GoMo Buzzwatch: Microsoft trademarks “Sift” for mobile search service
Microsoft has been trademarking a lot of names for possible replacements for Live Search recently. But the one that has generated the most noise was the recent unveiling of a possible mobile search service called “Sift“. Among other possible uses for the brand, Microsoft has suggested it could be for ” searching email, text messages, [...]
Go Mobile SEO- World’s first mobile sites SEO wizard launches on Zinadoo
Zinadoo, the mobile site creation company is the first company to integrate a made for mobile online SEO tool into its service portfolio.
What does this mean?
Zinadoo had teamed up with mobile SEO business visibility mobile for its unique mobile SEO wizard.
What is the Mobile SEO Wizard?
Anyone or webmaster with a self created mobile site can sign-up [...]
