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Yahoo Follows Google on Mobile Search

Posted by CmdrTaco on from the everybody's-doin'-it-man dept.

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."

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  1. simplicity by theMerovingian · · Score: 4, Insightful

    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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  2. Yahoo trying very hard to be Google by pebs · · Score: 3, Insightful

    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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  3. Could it bee any less specific? by broothal · · Score: 2, Insightful

    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..."

  4. why retrofit the web?? by netsavior · · Score: 2, Insightful

    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...