Tag Archives: Mobile Search

Brands ignoring mobile search at their peril says Mobileweb

Rating: A cross device mobile strategy is also key, apparently

According to the Mobileweb Company, mobile websites that it operates typically see uplift in mobile site traffic of more than 90 per cent. That’s because they are fully optimised for mobile search discovery, the company claims. Whilst Mobileweb’s own recently announced research shows that iPhone users grab the lion’s share of mobile web access (55.7 per cent), the company still urges brands to adopt a cross device mobile strategy. Less than 10 per cent of potential customers have an iPhone. Continue reading

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Google under threat from EU over search

Rating: Even more dominance over mobile search

Recent reports are suggesting that Joaquin Almunia, the EU’s commissioner for competition, is only weeks away from launching legal action against internet search giant, Google. Almunia will have to decide whether the company has breached the European Union’s anti-trust laws. In Europe, nine out of ten internet searches is carried out via Google as opposed to two out of three in North America. This brings Google some very nice profits. Last year [2011], it made around £6 billion which provides it with a nice little war chest for fighting such actions. These monster corporation versus government battles can drag on for years – witness the EU’s battle with Microsoft over browsers. But Microsoft was fined £1.4 million in the end. In theory, this means that Google could be fined around ten per cent of its annual revenues – which could come in as high as 3.1 billion. In the mobile world, however, Google’s dominance is even higher. Continue reading

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3 things you should know about mobile advertising for MWC

50 % of mobile traffic is done after 5pm

Average CTR on standard mobile banner is 0,4% (no scripts)// iPad average CTR is 0,77% (standard banners) // Android CTR is 0,31% (standard banner) // WP7 : 0,15% (standard banner) // iPhone: 0,44% [...]

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No need for QR code reader with W7 Mango

Rating: There’s one built in already

One of the first actions we took when Vodafone kindly lent GoMo News a Nokia Lumia 710 was to install our favourite applications/ We downloaded both NeoMedia‘s NeoReader and Scanbuy’s ScanLife Classic. Both apps are free so we are a little puzzled as to why W7 Mango users have obviously been buying Barcode Scanner from Therefour Phone 7 for £0.79. Actually, we’ve just discovered that if its QR codes that you want to read, there’s a perfectly good scanner built right into the Windows Phone 7 OS. Continue reading

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Westfield mobile shopping mobile search

Westfield Shopping App……. Yikes. A simple mobile search app that I like. Its from Westfield and Google, the video explains it all and its every woman’s dream.
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British retailers cannot afford to ignore mobile

Rating: Mobile search volumes increased 216% says BRC

The Online Retail Monitor for Q2 2011 – put together by the British Retail Consortium and Google – found that total retail search volumes had grown by 27 per cent compared with Q2 2010. The increase was driven by a rise in mobile search volumes of 216 per cent year-on-year. Interestingly, London comprised 36 per cent of all retail search volumes in the UK. The findings have caused Simon Walker, director for product management with Stibo Systems to warn that this rise clearly demonstrate that retailers cannot afford to ignore the power of mobile. “A 216 per cent rise in the past year shows how customer habits are changing and should come as a warning call to retailers. Customers are increasingly turning to mobile and tablet devices as part of a general lifestyle shift towards digital,” Walker commented. Continue reading

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Vlad Sejnoha Chief Technology Officer Nuance on the new mobile Dragon Go

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T-Labs starts testing barcoo for a new mobile visual search service

T-Labs (Deutsche Telekom Labs) has announced that a four month test of barcoo mobile code services and its visual search has started today.
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Mobile Visual Search becomes a must have?

All of a sudden after four years of trying and failing mobile visual search is making a come back. Here are two new apps that have got my attention.

Collectrium and Shopgate: two new diverse pixlinQ customers
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Mobile Image recognition plus mobile barcode reader library for app development

It seems as though mobile imaging and mobile barcoding are rubbing off each other. We got a bit of a scoop on some news coming out from Mobile Acuity tomorrow.

What is the scoop?
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Mobile Acuity selected by Mocom for Image Search

* Mocom partners with leading Image Search technology provider, Mobile Acuity, to provide Image Search services initially in Australia and other countries to follow.

* Mocom enables marketing and retail mobile applications and services into the Australian and other markets

* Mobile Acuity was selected after evaluating all of the available Image Search providers
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Help find missing children with your mobile

Poynt is one of the more successful companies out there that deals with local and location-based searches. It has now announced a deal with the Missing Children Society of Canada to help create a geo-targeted Child Search Alert system into the Poynt App. Continue reading

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Velti wants to acquire CASEE – Chinas largest mobile advertising exchange

Velti (NASDAQ: VELT), a leading global provider of mobile marketing and advertising technology, today announced that it intends to acquire the remaining equity ownership of CASEE, the largest mobile ad exchange and mobile ad network in China.
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Anti-competition claims piling up against Google

It seems the fashionable thing to do these days is file suit against Google for being anti-competitive. Or, at least, file complaints. The most recent complaint centres around mobile search, and has come from South Korea, where the top two internet companies have appealed to the country’s antitrust watchdog. Continue reading

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Mobile advertising and marketing hot news: search, Asian and ad growth

Welcome to the round-up of the top stories in mobile marketing and advertising from GoMo News! InMobi has released its latest Mobile Insights report; the IAB is astounded at mobile advertising’s ability to just keep growing; a brand new mobile ad optimization company launches in India, and more… Continue reading

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