Visual search for mobile again - will IQ Engines come through?

It’s an area of mobile that is just as fraught as voice recognition. Visual search and image recognition is one of those exciting areas that people really want to work in mobile. With a certain amount of notoriety now surrounding visual search engine GetFugu, we’ve been keeping an eye out for more hot companies working in the area. And here comes one now: IQ Engines. Pierre Garrigues, Director of Research and co-founder of the Berkley-based company, spoke about its service at Mobile 2.0

Aloqa launches on iPhone and offers publishers Cross-Platform API

Aloqa is a modern day mobile search application boasting context aware software plus a bit of a sexy UI.

Mobile Search is the saviour of mobile advertising, YAWN

There is a lovely article over at Clickz about 11 things mobile marketers can learn from search

Yahoo! sexes up the mobile homepage but why isnt it enough?

m.yahoo.com has improved. It has more personalisation, 3x more hits and a reach of 35 million unique users per month (US only).

Mobile search and discovery at CTIA

I was lucky enough to moderate a really great panel with two men who are up to their necks in mobile search and discovery. James Siminoff is the Chief Strategy Officer for mobile voice company Ditech, and Rahul Sonnad is the CEO of Geodelic a hyper-localised mobile search service that has caught our attention before.
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Is Porn best business model for the mobile web?

Nearly 5 years ago, I predicted that mobile search was going to be the freedom fighter of mobile. I said that it would empower brands, agencies and vendors to find far reaching and innovative business models.

Very cool “point and search” service on iPhone and Android uses geo-location for mobile search

San Francisco based software company GeoVector has released an app that seems genuinely interesting. World Surfer detects your location and what direction you are facing. It then searches through multiple location channels to present you with details of the real-world objects you are pointing at.

BBC and We Love Mobile aim for “first time” mobile search

When the BBC decided to create a bespoke mobile search service for it’s mobile site, it hired on mobile design and marketing agency We Love Mobile. They have now completed the design for the BBCs new mobile search - with the focus being squarely on getting the right result on the first search.

GetFugu gets $4 million for Mobile brand search

GetFugu is the long awaited search engine that uses Augmented Reality services to point consumers towards their favourite brands. Less than a week after booking Spongetech as its first brand partner, GetFugu has announced that the company is investing $4 million in the search engine.

Mobile search GetFugu to give free debit cards to first 100,000 users

The long-awaited mobile search service from GetFugu is set to launch this September. September 9th, actually, for the 09.09.09 launch date. In order to attract a chunk of users on day one, the company has announced it will be giving special GetFugu debit cards to the first 100,000 subscribers.

GoMo Buzzwatch: Microsoft and Yahoo! gang up on Google

The on-again-off-again relationship between Yahoo! and Microsoft has finally produced a 10-year agreement. The two companies are joining forces for a new Web search service targeted at both users and advertisers. Effectively, Microsoft will be taking over the actual search side of things, while Yahoo! handles all of the sales for search advertisers.

The .tel domain gets hyper-specialised mobile search, with new directory-within-a-directory service

Monetelize is a company exists for only one reason: to monetize pages on the .tel mobile domain. Today it has announced its new Yellowtel service. This provides local and vertical mobile search within .tel for hyper-specialised searches in what it calls “micro-niche sectors”

Mobile voice search launched by Google India, but they should have called it a beta

A mobile voice search engine, custom-built by Google India for the Indian market, has launched for free. Currently only Blackberry users can access the internet-style voice search service. But Google India plans to support other handsets by the end of the year.

Aloqa mobile search

Aloqa is a new mobile search company that will go live at MobileBeat tomorrow with a funding announcement. In short: Sanjeev Agrawal (former Head of Google Product Marketing) is the new CEO.

Google fudges in-application mobile advertising – GoMo News predictions ring true

There is a good read over at Ad Age. It explains how Google has teething problems with its AdSense for mobile and what you click on often points to a black hole, an online site, a void or a somewhere wrong.

There is an EXCELLENT read hear with instructions on how to opt out of Google Mobile. GoMo News scooped this in 2007 –but it seems like now it is getting other media attention.

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