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Apr. 29, 2008 at 8:49am by Greg Sterling
Microsoft Live Mobile Adds Product Search, "Find My Location"
Microsoft has introduced enhanced mobile product search at m.live.com. It shrinks down the content from the desktop product search into a bite-sized mobile presentation. You get images, reviews, product specifications, and features. These things don't come up for every category; however, it's a very nice presentation of information, and the...
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Apr. 2, 2008 at 9:31am by Greg Sterling
Verizon Enters The 'Voice Search' Fray With 1-800-THE-INFO
Verizon is formally launching an ad-supported free directory assistance/voice search product in the US called 1-800-THE-INFO. It joins an increasingly crowded field that already features Google, Microsoft, and AT&T, among others. As I said yesterday in my post about the launch of a new voice search offering from ChaCha, most...
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Apr. 1, 2008 at 10:22am by Greg Sterling
Search Engine ChaCha Expands Mobile Service To Include Voice Input
Human-powered search engine ChaCha launched in late 2006 to somewhat mixed reviews. It sought to entice users to search with expert guides in real time via IM chat windows. It also offered algorithmic search but the human-guided search was the hook. The concept was great but the practical experience was...
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Mar. 5, 2008 at 12:40pm by Greg Sterling
Pew: Cellphones More Important To Users Than Internet, TV, Email
Anyone who doubts how important mobile phones are and will become as a platform and marketing medium needs only to look at the latest Pew Internet & American Life report. Cellphones are now more important to US adults than the internet, television, landline phones, and email. In addition, an increasing...
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Feb. 12, 2008 at 7:38am by Greg Sterling
Mobile Musical Chairs: Google Befriends Nokia; Yahoo Snags T-Mobile Europe
Coming out of the Mobile World Congress this morning are two major mobile search (and probably ad) deals involving Google and Yahoo. Yahoo appears to have replaced Google as the search provider for T-Mobile in Europe, and it also appears to be ousting T-Mobile search partner Medio Systems in Europe...
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Feb. 1, 2008 at 7:18am by Greg Sterling
"Open Network" A Reality, C Block Of 700MHz Spectrum Hits $4.6 Billion "Reserve Price"
Yesterday the coveted "C Block" of the 700MHz spectrum, which will serve the entire US market, hit the FCC required minimum "reserve bid" of $4.6 billion. Google had promised to bid this amount to trigger the "openness provisions" imposed by the FCC. Effectively the rules now require that "any legal...
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Jan. 21, 2008 at 2:09pm by Greg Sterling
Comparing Mobile Search Surveys: Early Adopters Vs. Mainstream Users
I conducted a very informal, online Search Engine Land reader survey several weeks ago on a range of high-level topics pertaining to mobile search. The ultimate number of responses from SEL readers was a small sample of 77. Mike Blumethal, a contributor to SEL who writes the Understanding Google Maps...
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Jan. 15, 2008 at 3:16pm by Mike Blumenthal
MacWorld Highlights: Steve Jobs On The Future Of Mobile
What does mobile computing, that online all the time phenom of the future, look like, and how soon will we have ubiquitous mobile search? Apple Chairman Steve Jobs offered some serious clues in his keynote address here in San Francisco at MacWorld this morning....
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Jan. 3, 2008 at 9:57am by Greg Sterling
ChaCha Goes Mobile With TextChaCha
Social search engine ChaCha, which has struggled to gain traction and usage on the desktop, is introducing a new text-based mobile service called "textChaCha" (short code: 242242). The same human "guides" who provide assisted search on ChaCha.com answer potentially any question from mobile users. Accordingly, it's broader and more flexible...
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Jan. 2, 2008 at 1:17pm by Greg Sterling
WhatsOpen Aims To Disseminate Local Business Hours Data Across Platforms
Local search site WhatsOpen was rumored to be the first application for the Google Android mobile platform. Now the site has launched in public beta, including an Android application. The site is launching simultaneously in the US, Europe, and China, on mobile platforms (Android, iPhone) and on Facebook, MySpace, and...
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Dec. 13, 2007 at 8:03am by Greg Sterling
CallGenie Buys Mobile "Ad Exchange" PhoneSpots
Voice services provider CallGenie announced the acquisition of mobile content provider and ad exchange PhoneSpots. The mostly stock transaction was valued at $5.75 million and provides a range of new client relationships and capabilities to Canada-based CallGenie....
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Dec. 11, 2007 at 7:55am by Greg Sterling
SEL Mobile User Survey: 47 Percent Access Mobile Internet "More Than Once A Week"
Several weeks ago, I asked readers to take a quick mobile user survey to get a snapshot of mobile search usage among Search Engine Land readers. It was a brief survey that sought only high-level information. We had 75 people respond to the survey, which I've presented in its...
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Nov. 27, 2007 at 10:33am by Greg Sterling
Verizon Wireless To Consumers: Bring Your Own Phone
It a potentially dramatic move, Verizon Wireless is saying that it will allow customers to use phones and applications that it does not specifically sell. As a practical matter that potentially means that a mobile consumer could buy any phone and use it with the Verizon network, so long as...
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Nov. 26, 2007 at 11:00am by Greg Sterling
The Mobile Internet: Still Years Away?
The New York Times ran a kind of overview article this weekend about the mobile Web and the fact that it may still be far off as a practical matter. The article talks about different efforts, from the iPhone to Yahoo Go and recent Microsoft spin-off Zumobi, that are trying...
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Oct. 15, 2007 at 1:25pm by Greg Sterling
InfoSpace Sells Mobile Services Business--What Next?
Only weeks ago, InfoSpace sold Switchboard and its local/directory business to Idearc/Superpages for a reported $225 million. Today, Motricity announced that it had acquired the company's mobile services business for $135 million. Motricity wants the business for the revenues and carrier relationships and to tell a better story to the...
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Oct. 4, 2007 at 11:05am by Greg Sterling
BT Teams With FON To Offer Nationwide WiFi In UK
British Telecom has invested in FON, the Spanish WiFi provider, and says it will build out a free (to BT customers), UK-wide free WiFi network. MarketWatch reports that "BT's three million plus Total Broadband customers will be able to join the FON WiFi network, which already provides more than 190,000...
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Sep. 19, 2007 at 12:57pm by Gary Price
Why I'm Bullish On Mobile Search
I am a strong believer in the future of mobile search or what I prefer to call mobile access to information. This takes into account not only what we think of search today but also audio, video, text messaging, location based info, and more. This article is part of...
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Sep. 5, 2007 at 9:15am by Greg Sterling
CallGenie and R.H. Donnelley Launch Local Voice Search
Yellow pages publisher R.H. Donnelley (RHD), which recently acquired Business.com and owns search marketing firm LocalLaunch, is testing a new voice local mobile search product, 1-800-CallDex, in four U.S. markets: Denver, Phoenix, Spokane (WA) and Tucson. It offers a suite of services powered by speech and local mobile search enabler...
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Aug. 27, 2007 at 11:06am by Greg Sterling
Segmenting Local Mobile Search: The Major Players & Mobile Search Types
Expectations of mobile search and local mobile search in particular are rising. As mobile ad networks form, mobile M&A activity heats up and the search engines pour greater attention and resources into their mobile offerings one could say we're on the cusp of a new mobile era. Indeed, as...
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Aug. 16, 2007 at 10:26am by Greg Sterling
'Mobile Social Networking' Already Claims Millions Of Users
M:Metrics released numbers on mobile social networking in the US and Europe. The U.S. had the largest audience -- primarily mobile versions of social networking sites like MySpace and Facebook -- followed by the U.K., Spain, Germany and France. In the U.S. and Western Europe there were 12.3 million mobile...
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Jul. 24, 2007 at 9:10am by Barry Schwartz
Google & Other Search Apps For The iPhone
It has been almost two weeks since I got my iPhone and I have been playing with it for a while now. I wanted to share with you the various cool search applications I use on my iPhone, including Google's AJAX iPhone search....
