Mobile Search news round-up
A quick round-up of stories on Mobile Search spied on the web that you might have missed.
• Altsearchengines.com has a piece on GET, a SMS mobile search service by Thumplay that allows users to find and purchase ringtones, games, videos and wallpapers. The end user can text the word “Get” plus any artist or song name and they receive a wap link back….
that they can click to get access to Thumplay’s catalogue which currently lists more than 80,000 pieces of licensed audio, video and gaming content which includes content from many major music labels.
• iAppleblog.com reports that AOL have officially launched the beta AOL Mobile Search service specifically created for the iPhone and iPod Touch, although interestingly enough I found no mention of these devices on AOL’s mobile search page. AOL Mobile Search for the iPhone was designed specifically for the Apple iPhone’s mobile Safari browser. Mobile Search has a traditional Web search engine, but also has features specially tailored to search the content of various AOL properties, including Moviefone, MapQuest, AOL CityGuide and others. By combining AJAX technology and the iPhone’s easy to use multi-touch surface, AOL has created a user interface that allows the richness of the web to be delivered on a phone, says Steve Murphy, senior vice president of AOL.
• While we are on the iPhone Macrumors has a piece on Evolution Robotics - ViPR - Visual pattern recognition software for the iPhone. The demo video, which you can see here, shows how you can take a photo of a Book, DVD, or CD cover with the iPhone’s photo application. The photo can then be emailed to the ViPR server which will perform pattern recognition and then email back information about the product. In the video, Evolution take a photo of the DVD cover for Finding Nemo and got returned a description, Youtube link, and iTunes Music store link. Evolution plan on releasing a native iPhone application come June according to the video.
• Washingtonpost.com has a quote from Google’s China president Lee Kai-Fu. In an interview with Bloomberg News this week he suggests that mobile search volume in China may exceed that from computers in three years. The report goes on to say that mobile search should take off after the Chinese government issue 3G licences. According to China’s Ministry of Information Industry, at the end of February, China had 565.2 million mobile-phone users, more than the population of the U.S. and Japan combined.
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