Yahoo Improves Mobile Phone Search Functions

1:01 pm on July 7, 2005 | Category: Web Services

Yahoo! Inc. is enhancing their mobile search utility, expanding it across a number of additional mobile devices, and lanching numerous new features. The new services are available starting today (July 7) with major wireless carriers across the United States.

Yahoo’s search functions are designed to assist customers in quickly finding the information they need, while on the go. It uses shortcuts to help users eaily find the information they want and need when on the go.

The launch of Yahoo SMS Search gives consumers yet another way to quickly use their phone to search for needed information. Shortcuts available at launch include local information, news, weather, stock quotes, daily horoscopes, dictionary definitions, WiFi hotspot finder, and zip and area code lookup.

The other new service, Yahoo Search on Mobile, gives access to search results powered by Yahoo Search Technology through WAP enabled mobile phones. Previously, full Web search was available only on HTML-capable mobile devices, however, today’s launch expands the reach across a number of additional WAP 2.0 (xhtml) enabled handsets by translating entire Web pages to for viewing on consumers’ phones.

These new innovations by Yahoo will surely open up a variety of new options and possibilities to mobile phone users. To try it yourself, simply visit mobile.yahoo.com from your web browser or phone.

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    1. […] Several major search engines, including Google, MSN, and Yahoo are also trying to grab their share of the mobile intenet market. They are attempting to improve their mobile search services, by introducing features such as SMS search queries. […]

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    2. 4INFO (shortcode 44636) has a similar text message offering, but provides several additional services that Yahoo! does not: sports scores (”packers” “nfl”), fantasy stats (”joe crede” “priest holmes”), movie times (”movies 92111″), flight times (”swa san jose san diego”) and a beta version of mobile download search. All these services can be accessed via SMS (44636), WAP (http://wap.4INFO.net ), or email to search@4INFO.net.

      Why 4INFO instead of Yahoo?
      “Both of the major Web search players, Google and Yahoo!, should not feel confident that they can leverage their brands so easily on mobile. These giants could learn a few good lessons from the smaller, lesser-known 4Info…”
      - Wireless Business Forecast, 7/14/2005

      Comment by Bob Roth — October 24, 2005 #

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