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 [...]

JumpTap Partners with Skweezer for mobile search

Mobile search company JumpTap seems to have stopped its partnership with Openwave and is now partnering with Skweezer for mobilizing search results.

What?
Basically, when results are not made for mobile and are found in search results they will be adapted using Skweezer technology. So the user experience is simple and consistent.
Without this - results found might [...]

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 [...]

Yahoo! oneSearch(TM) Launches as the Mobile Search Service on T-Mobile USA’s New Web2goSM Service
I think this is what I was talking about earlier with the threesome article but now there is another brand involved Web2go

T-Mobile USA, Inc. and Yahoo! Inc. announced that, beginning today, Yahoo! oneSearch(TM) powers mobile Internet searches made through T-Mobile’s new web2goSM [...]

Mobile Search: Yahoo! One Search button on T-Mobile USA phones

T-Mobile has all avenues covered and is having a threesome with Google, Yahoo and Medio.
 
Threesome?

Well T-Mobile’s online strategy has been a bit flirtatious. It started with web ‘n’ walk and Google – but Google’s mobile search wasn’t very good (metaTXT needed!) So then Google got divorced and Yahoo! Became the new mistress and oneSearch is [...]

metaTXT Mobile SEO working group early adopters announced in Macau

Here is the press release for the new working group for metaTXT the mobile SEO standard. In true start-up sense changes to the metatxt.org website and the sister websites are not quite ready… and some other huge news is in the pipeline -but this is the starting point!

19th November 2008, Macau: Today ten of the [...]

MyClick Mobile Visual Search at Mobile Asia Congress

First ever campaign with Pepsi where you had to take the image within the code.
New campaign where you take a picture of the whole bag of crisps and not just one piece of code.
Images at the conference for winning prizes.

So I was impressed with MyClick there has been a competition running all day for [...]

Fast Search and Transfer raided for fraud?

I read this article and couldn’t believe my eyes? Can this be true?  Mobile Search company FAST Search and Transfer focusing on the Enterprise billing or calling things profitable that were not so?

I have to say - I find it hard to believe - because the company (now sold to Microsoft) was run like a [...]

Abphone launches first vertical white labelled mobile content search engine – The Abphonebox

Dear me! What a lot of French innovation this morning. Mobile content search engine Abphone has gone from brand to white label from off portal to on portal and back again.

From the press release:
Abphone’s new white-labelled mobile search engine is a real traffic booster opportunity, which offers the best-in-class technology to maximize and monetise mobile [...]

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