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Yahoo Follows Google on Mobile Search
An anonymous reader writes "Just a few weeks after Google introduced Google SMS, Google's mobile search service, the Sunnyvale, Calif.-based Internet media company Yahoo! . expanded its search services to the mobile market, said the company on Wednesday."
Is this available outside the US yet?
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From what I've heard GoogleSMS is awesome and I could've used its "find a pizza shop" function last night
The article mentioned Though the mobile content open a new revenue source, both Google and Yahoo! offer the service for free, but they admitted that they might commercialize the service once it get popular.
I guess it's like pr0n, first they offer you "free tours", next thing you know they're charging for everything and you're still paying for it because you're already addicted.
Will this also be an indication that other services like GMail, might be commercialized (other that the Ads) once everybody owns a gmail account, keeps 500MB of emails there and have no option (to download/archive) but to pay for the service?
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now can i get pr0n on my phone?
Google Mobile has been out longer than a week - it was just in "beta" (which tends to be pretty good for Google) and accessible at labs.google.com. Google Labs is an awesome place to visit and play around with the cool toys they're working on.
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apparently a moderator didn't read this comment... how is it offtopic? it has QUOTES from the article.
This is an excellent summary, of the new Yahoo!. service, that I'm sure to enjoy, and I hope you do too, because it is well edited.
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now i can get a list of sites from a search on my mobile that i can't visit !
Yahoo has been partnered with AT&T wireless for a while now. yahoo messenger on all their phones, Yahoo part of their mMode online content and I had been a part of the SMS search testing for over 30 days now.
almost everytihng Yahoo branded is attached to AT&T mobile stuff lately. They are making one hell of a branding with AT&T.
Heck I get notification on my phone when I get an email in my Yahoo.com email account.
if google can partnet with a wireless company they might be able to overtake everyone in the wireless arena.
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While Google SMS (Short Message Service) provides text-only results, Yahoo! offer a more comprehensive features set - local, image and web search as well as maps, stock information, mobile games and icons - a feature where a user click and call a VoIP (Voice over Internet Protocol).
Once again, I think Google got this one right. People search to find information, and they want simple results that are easy to read. Similar to their (ugly) homepage, it sounds like Yahoo is going to fall victim to excessive gimmickry.
Mobile screen real estate is even more valuable than normal monitor real estate, so I would say google has the better strategy here.
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That was the day it was announced here at slashdot. I am still wanting for the responses to come back. Ok I am not wanting anymore; because I don't think they will come back. Nice idea, but it does not seam to be working.
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Come on, it's competition, of course they are going to come out with a similar service. Why does this need to be front page news? It had to be the first thing we all thought of when we heard Google was doing it: "How long till MS and Yahoo follow suit?"
I think that the yahoo additions could give them the advantage. You are correct that If someone is searching for information then the Google may be better. But on a mobile device I could see someone pulling a picture of a celebrity because they are arguing with thier friends wheather a stranger looks familiar. The social aspect of a mobile devise does better with pictures. If I want Information, I'll use a laptop, not a phone.
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For more information on the new Yahoo mobile search, type "Yahoo Mobile Search" into Google.
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Yahoo! Wants to Whack Google in Mobile Searching
I tried their new search http://mobile.yahoo.com/search and it asploded my Samsung A500. The first time I loaded the page, the web browser closed. The second time, the phone rebooted! I have reset my phone several times, same results.
Then I read the page in a real browser, and they SMS you a link. That link worked in my phone.
Yahoo Follows Google on Mobile Search
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What I would like to see if an RSS client for my cell phone!
Instead of having that main menu screen, just have it replaced with RSS headers that update every 10 minutes or so. That'd be interesting!
I just did a Yahoo! SMS for "Goatse" and was returned an image of the Goatse man!
AWESOME!!!!!
Oh. That Yahoo. I was wondering what they did.
Perhaps I ought to clarify for those not getting it (or perhaps I am being modded down for pure stupidity....).... ketchup, when pronounced in certain accents (like quite a few Southern American and back-water Canadian [of which I am part] is pronounced "catch-up" which it seems is what Yahoo is playing right now.... Sigh....
Yahoo seems to be trying very hard to be Google these days. Their new web page reminds me of G-mail. And their search engine looks nearly identical to that of Google.
Not necessarilly a bad thing, though.
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The article covers everything except:
Where is this service available?
When is it available?
How is it available?
etc...
In the immortal words of Comic Book Guy: "Worst....article...ever..."
I dont understand the trend toward retrofitting the web instead of upgrading the phone...
I personally have 2 phones that are more than capable of using the Real google or real yahoo search pages.
Plenty of phones can use the web just fine, and you will probably be happier than with 250 characters of search results at a time...
I have to point out that Yahoo! has had this mobile search for several years now. It's really nothing new.
Can someone here explain exactly what SMS is and how this service would work? I've never used a mobile phone for anything other than making phone calls and receiving the occasional text message when a server at work goes down, so I don't have any clue how one could search from a mobile device.
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If this doesn't yet strike you as a "me, too!" offering, check out the Yahoo! search home page. That doesn't look anything like Google's home page, no sir!
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I got a peek last week at what the folks at Google's Local shop are working on for delivering maps and such to media enabled phones. If you think the recent purchase of an internet mapping service is just more money happiness after a recent IPO, you are wrong. Yahoo has a LOOOOOONG way to go to catch up.
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I love it.
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I was going to post about the horrible grammer of the article itself (which the summary was ripped from) but then saw your post. The last sentence in the article just cracks me up:
At moment, Yahoo! service available to Cingular Wireless, AT&T Wireless and Sprint Wireless subscribers.
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With more and more cellphones having internet connectivity built into them, it seems like a wast of time to implement a feeble search feature as an SMS service.
I've used Google's WAP proxy on my phone to search for information, and although it works it's terribly slow. It takes about 5 min to read through an entire webpage because it splits it up into little peices.
Yahoo Mobile search is VERY good though. I'm impressed that it's a complete search solution as a yellow pages. Now if only we could do something about these small cellphone screens....
Yahoooooo?
(Just kidding. I know there's more than one way to say that you're Googling for something. I just don't Google on Yahoo anymore.)