Google dominates mobile web search in USA

Rating: Or so say the Opera browser people
According web browser specialist, Opera, Google took the Lion’s share of mobile web search in the USA with a surprsingly small than 9 per cent of all page views . Still that easily outpaces rivals Yahoo! and Bing, who had 4.3 per cent and 0.03 per cent of [...]

Calling all Mobile Search providers! Time to get on the list.

The time has come for an update of the Top Mobile Search Companies list here on GoMo News. It’s a big job, so we’ve left it until after Mobile World Congress. Check out the current list at http://www.gomonews.com/msearch/. If you want to update your company entry, send me a mail at cian@gomonews.net - and if your company doesn’t appear on the list, that’s an even better reason to mail me! GoMo News is read by 75k+ people every month - and 75% of our readership is based in San Francisco and Silicon Valley. If you want the right readers to see your company details, then get them on the GoMo News list.

Digital love: the mobile industry gears up for Valentines Day

Christmas and Valentines Day really pull a big reaction of messaging in the mobile industry. MMS providers go into hyper-publicity mode, reminding everyone that you can send a cute animation to your loved ones rather than a card. So, as we’re within a week of Valentines Day, I’ve been getting a lot of press contacts about the day. And out of the many press releases, I’ve found two that I find rather interesting. MMS analytics provider Amethon looks at MMS content, and mobile navigation company CoPilot launches a Love Search function.

Mobile navigation is really heating up. CoPilot launches free services for Android and Windows Mobile

CoPilot is one of the leading pure-mobile navigation services available. Created by ALK Technologies, it’s application is most certainly NOT free, but it is very high quality. However, those who have paid for it are getting a happy bonus today, as CoPilot launches a free Local Internet search service to the application.

New mobile search engine combines Google and Bing with mobile site directory

A new mobile search engine has been launched by one of the largest Palm OS software developers in the world. Handcase is a Brazilian firm, with over 2 million mobile owners using its products in 80 different countires - and today Handcase is promoting its new mobile-only search engine, Gune.

What does it do?

Gune stands for “site” in Basque - and the core offering of Gune isn’t very exciting I’m afraid to say. But bear with me, because I do think this is a great option for the majority of phones.

Mobile voice searchers most often ask for Youtube, Facebook and MySpace

Mobile developer Vlingo runs a service that GoMo News has always been interested in: mobile voice control. The product allows you to access most of the core functions of your device simply by speaking at it - you can see our live demo of the service at CTIA 2009 here. One of those functions is mobile web search, where you can simply tell Vlingo what you want and at it will run a series of searches for it on the internet through your phone. Today, Vlingo has published its list of the 10 most popular mobile web searches that were run through Vlingo during 2009.

Why so popular? How ChaCha used advertising to dominate mobile SMS search

It has been a good week so far for mobile search company ChaCha. The service, which answers questions that users send in by SMS, received another $7 million in funding - and was declared to be a more popular SMS search service than Google. But why has ChaCha been so successful? In this post, we look at the resons that ChaCha has made it as King of the SMS Search Services.

What controversy? Augmented Reality mobile search from GetFugu rocks out 2009

The proposition behind GetFugu is a simple one - you should be able to point your mobile phone camera at something and buy it. And you should be able to say the name of something into your phone and buy it. The “See it, Say it, Buy it” promise at the heart of this augmented reality search app has had a rocky 2009, with legal controversy raising its head in early October. But GetFugu seems to have weathered the storm, and has just announced $800,000 in funding.

Buzzd goes Android

Rating: Sadly only works in North America
It had to happen. That combination between a social network and a local facilities search engine which is Buzzd has come out on an Android platform. Its author, however,  is still restricting the app to North America.
Reportedly, the most popular feature in this city guide style app is the [...]

Microsoft buddies up - is Bing mobile search app for iPhone trying to be as friendly as Google?

Man, Microsoft is really trying hard to be your bestie these days. Back before the Windows Marketplace launch, it created the developer oriented WinMoDevCamps to generate a family feeling with app makers. Its current advertising campaign for Windows 7 (the “I am Windows” business) is clearly aimed at making people feel like they’re an important part of Microsofts world. And now Microsoft is telling major news sources that the reason its online search-engine Bing is being released as a mobile-optimised app for iPhone is that they like everybody.

Telmap moves Navigator app onto Android

Rating: Can’t ignore ” fastest growing smartphone OS” any longer
Mobile satnav specialist, Telmap, has introduced a version of
Telmap Navigator for Android. The reason being that it is responding to a prediction from Current Analysis that Android is “the fastest growing smartphone operating system in 2009.”
According to the Press blurb,  the first customer for this Android [...]

Google mobile updates hit movies and coupons

If you’re working in any area of mobile or on-line services, the presence of Google in your market is as constant as death or taxes. It’s always worth keeping an eye on what it’s up to - and this week Google has advanced its mobile platform in both search and coupons.

Mobile operator Orange marches on Europe, announces Google deal

The largest French telecoms company, France Télécom, has kicked off big moves across European today through it’s mobile operator subsidiary Orange. The company has pretty much annexed a mobile operator in neighbouring Luxembourg, and has announced a search and application deal with Google across all of Europe.

How can Google shape the flow of information from Twitter?

Back in May, Bena wrote an article describing Twitter as a search engine, and showing the major differences between Google and Twitter. Her conclusions included Twitter being the most immediate, up-to-date search service available… but not getting the same kind of quality control or duplication-removal that Google offers. Those negative points may be about to disappear - as Google has announced that Tweets will now be offered alongside regular results on the massive search engine.

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

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