Yahoo! onesearch: first ever mobile analysis in The Mobile Search Analyst

by: admin Thursday, February 1st, 2007

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Yahoo! Go Analysis
Watch out Google and AOL as Yahoo! shifts into fifth gear on mobile with oneSearch. The all new Yahoo! Go is a mini widget heaven with stylish carousel navigation that makes search and surfing simpler and faster. BUT, it took three attempts to download and then we had to install it on a US device to get it to work and it cost us a fortune…

Competitive Intelligence: Mobile Answers
Answers is the buzz word around mobile search, knocking discovery off the top perch. Slowly but surely answers is becoming the way to engage customers. There are several SMS search and answer services such a 4Info SMS search, 82Ask, AQA (Ask Any Question), Askmenow and the mobile version of Yahoo! Answers from the Internet…

4Info Mobile Search Engine Analysis
At CES 2007 in Las Vegas, SMS search company 4Info launched a Mobile Search Engine with “Single-Click” answers. We put the search engine to the test. Our attempts to download the search failed. We used a Motorola V1050 device on the Vodafone Germany GPRS network as we couldn’t get a 3G connection in Rheinland Pfalz. After logging into live! we went to the…

Guest Article: The Developing World by Celltick
With emerging markets across Latin America, Asia and Eastern Europe commanding a more active role in the mobile industry, Stephen Dunford, CEO of Celltick, looks at the drivers behind innovation and the lessons ‘developed’ countries can learn…

T-Mobile and Medio Systems: the real importance of the deal
It’s easy to dismiss T-Mobile’s deal with Medio Systems as a step backwards for T-Mobile, but that would be both unfair and untrue. Rather, T-Mobile is finally taking control of its own mobile search services and entering the battle to lead in the mobile Internet…

Yellow Pages Mobile Analysis
Access to the Yellow Pages mobile site took about 5 seconds to download. The navigation menu was clear and simple and the colour scheme fresh. Navigation of the different criteria was simple and self-explanatory…


Idle Screen Search Wins: Fastsearch wins MTS contract
Earlier this year, I predicted that Fastsearch would be frustrated by its performance in the mobile search arena. Its licence model is a tougher sell than some revenue share plans. Also, Fastsearch expects the customer company to know what they want and then bend the white label platform to meet these needs…

The lowdown: looking for search companies in BarcelonaThe Action Engine Mobile Application Platform from Action Engine Corporation introduces a client/server approach to discovering mobile content. The company says this approach requires 80% fewer keystrokes and drives 20x faster response times than alternatives…

Visual Mobile Search Picapage
Picapage is the mobile only search solution available on Windows Mobile 5 (WM5) devices and Symbian 9.1, 9.2. The company has been operating a beta service for a few months now and has just launched its services in a low key way…

Mobile Search News January 2007
4info free alerts to Spark community members , Mobile Communities and Mobile Search: The .Mobi Saviour?, MCN white label search attack, Yell.Com gets Mobile, China starts searching the minfo way…

Related News:

  1. Rogers and Yahoo! expand and grow mobile search, oneSearch, Go! and broadband
  2. 4Info announces SingleClick search engine for the Mobile Internet
  3. Yahoo! Broadens oneSearch
  4. Yahoo! oneSearch Answers
  5. Yahoo and 4Info in text ad trial? Do we care?

 

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