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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."
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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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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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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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.
(For the uninitiated http://www.466453.com/ belongs to google.)
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If I understand correctly, it's note even available on all US providers, much less ones in other countries.
I personally prefer the SMS method Google uses. At least with that you can use it from any SMS-enabled phone (and I can't think of any that aren't off the top of my head).
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Oh. That Yahoo. I was wondering what they did.
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 an (SMS-enabled) Virgin Mobile phone and it doesn't work with GoogleSMS. If you look closely, Google does in fact support all of the 'major' carriers (they list the ones they do), but those of us with more obscure carriers are left out. I'm not complaining, that's what I get for not having a major carrier... just thought I'd point it out.
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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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