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Archive for March, 2007

Google Has Killed the Mobile Web

Posted by Nadir on March 30th, 2007

Google launched its new mobile search engine a few days ago.I’ve blogged about it on this post and highlighted the main features.While I think the new user Interface is better than the last one, I’m really saddened (and annoyed) by the fact that Google doesn’t allow users to search inside their mobile web index.

Microsoft Launch New Mobile Browser (beta)

Posted by Nadir on March 29th, 2007

Microsoft Live Labs just announced that their new mobile browser was now available as a beta version. The browser is called Deepfish (the blue fish is really cool!), and is basically capable of displaying any desktop website.

LG To Install Google on Millions of Phones

Posted by Nadir on March 28th, 2007

Google just reached a deal with mobile manufacturer LG to pre-install its search engine and other services on millions of mobile phones.

Google Launches New Mobile Search Engine!

Posted by Nadir on March 27th, 2007

Google just launched its new mobile search engine in reply to Yahoo!’s OneSearch. If you go to the mobile version of Google, you’ll see this message:

Yahoo! Is Really Getting Serious About Mobile Search

Posted by Nadir on March 27th, 2007

Last week, Yahoo! proudly announced that their mobile search service (downloadable application) called OneSearch was now available on more than 85% of US phones.

Google Servers Meet Street Art

Posted by Nadir on March 22nd, 2007

If you think Google’s Mini servers aren’t stylish enough, you should check out the ones that street artist Vulcan painted. The artist is currently exhibing his work on Mountain View Campus.

Via John Battelle’s blog, I’ve learned that Google filled its K1-form this week. I wanted to see what Google had to say about Mobile Search in this report and found a few interesing tidbits.

When you are using a traditional search engine on your mobile, it will transcode the pages automatically so that it can be displayed properly on your browser. This is done by using proxies. Google, Yahoo!, and Live Search are all providing this functionality. For example, if you use Google on your mobile, and choose to […]