Chomp: An Apps Search Engine Or “Yelp For The App Store”
Mar 11, 2010 at 9:12am ET by Greg Sterling
Chomp could be described as a search engine for iPhone apps (and eventually other apps stores). It's a two-month old iPhone app and more recently a website, which resembles Twitter, whose objective is to enable people to more easily discover and review iPhone apps.
The proliferation of 160,000 iPhone apps has created the well-documented problem of app discovery for consumers and app marketing for developers. Getting attention as an iPhone app has become increasingly difficult as the iTunes app store has mushroomed.
Enter Chomp, co-founded by mobile entrepreneur and former Aardvark adviso [...]
Filed in: Search Engines: Mobile Search Engines
Collecta Launches Mobile Version Of Real-Time Search Engine
Mar 10, 2010 at 11:00am ET by Matt McGee
Collecta has just announced the launch of a mobile version of its real-time search engine. The mobile site is available at m.collecta.com.
Like it main site, Collecta mobile includes real-time news, photos, and status updates from more than 10 million content sources -- from Twitter to Flickr and CNN and blogs. The mobile site is available on the iPhone, Droid, Palm and Nokia Maemo. As you can see from the screenshots (below) that Collecta provided, the company is hoping to take advantage of the interest in real-time news and information surrounding the upcoming SXSW conference.
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Filed in: Search Engines: Mobile Search Engines, Search Engines: Real Time Search
Opera Says Google Dominating Search On Mobile Web
Feb 25, 2010 at 12:07pm ET by Greg Sterling
Opera, the leading independent mobile browser, has been putting out great data on mobile Internet usage for quite some time. Google always ranks as one of the top sites globally. However this month's "State of the Mobile Web" report is the first time that the company has released search market share data.
It shows Google with a lead comparable, almost exactly, to its market share on the PC in the US. Yahoo enjoys a larger share of mobile search than it now does on the PC, according to Opera. And Bing is virtually non-existent.
The caveat to all this is that Opera only captures usage on t [...]
Filed in: Google: Mobile, Google: Web Search, Search Engines: Mobile Search Engines
Siri: Not A “Search Engine” But You Might Use It Like One
Feb 5, 2010 at 7:51am ET by Greg Sterling
When I've spoken in the past to people at Siri we've discussed and they've struggled a bit with how to present and "position" what they're doing. Described as a "virtual personal assistant" -- and called the "Siri Assistant" in fact in its formal launch -- the company's much anticipated iPhone app has arrived. There will be other apps for other mobile platforms, as well as a major carrier deal to be announced relatively soon.
Siri is not a search engine technically and it's not intended to be a replacement for Google. It's intended to enable you to do more with your voice and your phone in [...]
Filed in: Google: Mobile, Search Engines: Maps & Local Search Engines, Search Engines: Mobile Search Engines, Top News
Does CityGrid From Citysearch “Answer” The Local SEO Problem?
Feb 2, 2010 at 9:26am ET by Greg Sterling
At one time local startups could reliably count on Google organic traffic to help build their own traffic and brands. Indeed, this is how Yelp gained visibility in its early days. And larger publishers, such as yellow pages sites, have relied heavily on SEO, as well, to drive traffic to their advertisers. However, recently that's become more difficult with the Map + 7 Pack showing up with greater frequency (roughly 1 in 13 SERPs) on Google.
Not counting the map listings, depending on the query and the user's PC screen size, there may be only one or two slots available for SEO in a local con [...]
Filed in: Features: Analysis, Google: Maps & Local, Search Engines: Maps & Local Search Engines, Search Engines: Mobile Search Engines, Top News
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