Search Engines: Mobile Search Engines

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Fri 5 Feb 2010

Siri: Not A “Search Engine” But You Might Use It Like One

Posted by Admin under Google: Mobile, Latest Info, Search Engines: Maps & Local Search Engines, Search Engines: Mobile Search Engines, Top News

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 [...]

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Tue 2 Feb 2010

Does CityGrid “Answer” The Local SEO Problem?

Posted by Admin under Google: Maps & Local, Latest Info, Search Engines: Maps & Local Search Engines, Search Engines: Mobile Search Engines

Ad 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 [...]

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Wed 27 Jan 2010

AT&T Planning To Launch Yelp-Like Site Buzz.com

Posted by Admin under Google: Maps & Local, Latest Info, Search Engines: Maps & Local Search Engines, Search Engines: Mobile Search Engines

Forbes covers AT&T’s forthcoming local recommendations site Buzz.com. It aims to be a place where people can get and share recommendations about local businesses. Despite my headline and that of the Forbes article it’s not going to be a reviews and social networking site like Yelp. Rather it may be more analogous to AlikeList or [...]

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Mon 4 Jan 2010

With Mobile Ad Networks Being Snapped Up By Google And Apple Will Yahoo Or Microsoft Be The Next To Buy?

Posted by Admin under Google: Acquisitions, Latest Info, Microsoft: Marketing, Microsoft: Partnerships, Search Engines: Mobile Search Engines, Top News, Yahoo: Display Ads, Yahoo: Mobile & Go

In November, Google surprised many when it announced that it was buying mobile ad network AdMob for a massive $750 million in stock, bringing mobile advertising suddenly into the consciousness of people who’d simply not paid attention before: “Hey, maybe this thing IS for real.”
Now Apple is reportedly buying another tier one mobile ad network, [...]

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Thu 17 Dec 2009

Google To Buy Yelp For $500 Million?

Posted by Admin under Google: Maps & Local, Latest Info, Search Engines: Maps & Local Search Engines, Search Engines: Mobile Search Engines, Top News

TechCrunch is reporting that Google is “advanced acquisition negotiations” to buy Yelp for $500 million or more. TechCrunch has been generally correct about many of the rumors it has reported recently (i.e., Google Phone) so we should take this seriously.
Yelp has raised a little over $30 million over several funding rounds. Revenues are heading toward [...]

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Fri 11 Dec 2009

Pre-Xmas Sale On Wolfram iPhone App

Posted by Admin under Latest Info, Search Engines: Experimental, Search Engines: Mobile Search Engines, Search Engines: Wolfram Alpha

The previous $50 price tag was probably a serious miscalculation (pun intended) by the folks at Wolfram Alpha, when they launched their iPhone app. Pricing is an art, not a science. However, for a limited time only (the remainder of the year) they have decided to put it on sale for $19.99.

There was an iPhone-friendly [...]

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Tue 10 Nov 2009

Does Marissa Mayer’s “Perfect Search Engine” Already Exist In Siri?

Posted by Admin under Latest Info, Search Engines: Experimental, Search Engines: Mobile Search Engines, Search Features: Commands, Search Features: Natural Language

Recently IDG News Service asked Google’s Marissa Mayer about the “perfect search engine.” Here was the question posed: “What is the perfect search engine? If you had a magic wand and could create it, what would it look like? What would it do?”
Mayer replied: “It would be a machine that could answer that question, really. [...]

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Thu 15 Oct 2009

Battle Of The Augmented Reality Apps: Urbanspoon, Layar, Wikitude, WhereMark & More

Posted by Admin under Google: Maps & Local, Google: Mobile, Latest Info, Search Engines: Maps & Local Search Engines, Search Engines: Mobile Search Engines

There seems to be an explosion of “real-time” search engines on the PC. The space is very new, still fairly open and in my opinion the tools and sites are not yet all that useful. Almost exactly the same can be said of “augmented reality” (AR) in mobile.
From almost nothing about six months ago, there’s [...]

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Wed 14 Oct 2009

Shopping Site TheFind Relaunches As “Buying Engine”

Posted by Admin under Latest Info, Search Engines: Maps & Local Search Engines, Search Engines: Mobile Search Engines, Search Engines: Shopping Search Engines

If Bing can brand itself “decision engine” as a strategy to differentiate  from the leading “search engine” so can shopping comparison site TheFind, which is now calling itself a “buying engine” as a way to emerge from the anonymous sea of shopping search sites out there. This morning a redesigned TheFind went live with a [...]

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Tue 15 Sep 2009

Aardvark Launches iPhone App For Answers “On The Go”

Posted by Admin under Google: Mobile, Latest Info, Search Engines: Mobile Search Engines

Aardvark, which can be described variously as a “social search engine, “help engine” or “answer community,” has launched an iPhone app. It was many months in the making according to co-founder Max Ventilla. And with it, Aardvark arrives on what may be its breakthrough platform, helping to introduce the service to the mainstream — or [...]

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Tue 8 Sep 2009

Flickr Now Has An iPhone App

Posted by Admin under Latest Info, Search Engines: Mobile Search Engines, Search Engines: Photo & Image Search, Yahoo: Flickr

This morning, TechCrunch reported that Flickr’s iPhone app has finally made it to the iTunes Store. It is free and can be downloaded by clicking here. I gave the app a quick go, and I really think it was done exceptionally well.
Here is a walk through, screen by screen.
The app icon is plain [...]

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Wed 2 Sep 2009

Idearc Brings True Local Search To Twitter

Posted by Admin under Latest Info, Search Engines: Maps & Local Search Engines, Search Engines: Mobile Search Engines, Search Engines: Real Time Search, Search Engines: Twitter, Search Engines: Word Of Mouth & Buzz Search Engines, Top News

A version of local search has existed on Twitter for some time: asking your followers for local recommendations about places to stay, things to do and so on. One can also use Twitter search itself, though it’s very hit and miss in terms of the quality of results. And there are also the third party [...]

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Wed 12 Aug 2009

‘Augmented Reality’ Is Also A Form Of Search

Posted by Admin under Bing Maps & Local, Features: Analysis, Google: Mobile, Latest Info, Microsoft: Bing, Microsoft: Live Search Mobile, Search Engines: Mobile Search Engines

We’re really just at the beginning of the era of “mobile search.” Even what we think of as “search” will be dramatically altered by innovations in mobile. In this first phase the transfer of what might be called the “query box” (and related links) into mobile is complete. In time, however, we many even come [...]

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Tue 21 Jul 2009

Report: ChaCha Voice Search Beats Google, Yahoo/Vlingo In Accuracy, Reliability

Posted by Admin under Google: Mobile, Google: Voice Search, Latest Info, Microsoft: Tellme, Search Engines: Mobile Search Engines, Yahoo: Mobile & Go

A new report finds that mobile search and answers service ChaCha beat Google and Yahoo’s voice search tools in terms of overall accuracy and reliability across a range of query types in a controlled study. The study was conducted by Albright Communications/MSearchGroove in January of this year.
The report, which can be downloaded from the ChaCha [...]

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Mon 22 Jun 2009

iPhone’s Spotlight Search

Posted by Admin under Latest Info, Search Engines: Mobile Search Engines, Search Engines: Other Search Engines

This Friday, I was one of the million people to get a new iPhone 3GS. After getting through my activation issues I had some time to test out the new search feature on the iPhone, named Spotlight (from Apple OS).
With the new iPhone, you can have an unlimited number of applications, so [...]

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Tue 16 Jun 2009

Taptu Offers Search Engine For iPhone; 40 Percent Of iPhone Users Online More With Mobile

Posted by Admin under Latest Info, SEM Industry: Conferences, Search Engines: Mobile Search Engines, Stats: Popularity, Stats: Search Behavior, Stats: Size

Mobile search engine Taptu has just launched a free iPhone app (”alternative search machine”). It’s the first iPhone-specific search engine but Taptu has been doing mobile search for some time. According to the company the engine crawls the web and indexes “iPhone friendly pages” that are optimized for the device. The index is much smaller [...]

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Mon 18 May 2009

Yahoo Streamlining Mobile Experiences, Discontinues “Smartphone App”

Posted by Admin under Latest Info, Search Engines: Mobile Search Engines, Yahoo: Mobile & Go

Until a couple of months ago, Yahoo had a range of mobile products and experiences in the market: Go, oneSearch, oneConnect and mobile web. With the launch of Yahoo Mobile earlier this year the company has been seeking to bring more consistency to the mobile user experience. Earlier today TechCrunch reported that Yahoo had “abandoned” [...]

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Wed 29 Apr 2009

IAC Buys UrbanSpoon

Posted by Admin under Latest Info, Search Engines: Maps & Local Search Engines, Search Engines: Mobile Search Engines

IAC has acquired UrbanSpoon, the restaurant review site that has an incredible popular iPhone application, amongst Facebook widgets and other widgets. The news is now over Techmeme that the company has been acquired for somewhere in the millions of dollar range. IAC has not disclosed the acquisition price.
The company was set up by Ethan [...]

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