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Archive for October, 2007

Google’s Mobile Search Challenge In China

Posted by Nadir on October 28th, 2007

In China, a lot of people use the Internet for the first time from their mobile device rather than from a PC. According to an article from LeMonde, Google is struggling to figure out how to satisfy these kind of users. Lee Kai-Fu, President of Google China, said in an interview with Reuters (translated from […]

How To Get A PR4 In 24 Hours

Posted by Nadir on October 24th, 2007

The answer is simple: sell links!
Inspired by BVWG.

AOL Mobile Search Now Has A Mobile Web Index

Posted by Nadir on October 24th, 2007

It appears that AOL has decided to build a Mobile Web index for its mobile search engine. It used to have only regular Web pages, and now allows you to find mobile friendly sites (coded in WML, XHTML, etc).

Yahoo! To Announce More Carrier Partnerships

Posted by Nadir on October 24th, 2007

I recently reported that Yahoo! will soon launch its OneSearch search engine on an Asian mobile carrier’s portal. Now, Reuters reports that Yahoo! has actually signed more deals with other mobile carriers in South Asia:

Ads On AOL Mobile Search Are Powered By JumpTap

Posted by Nadir on October 24th, 2007

According to Bena from GoMoNews, JumpTap serves advertisements on AOL Mobile Search. I ran some searches on AOL Mobile Search and sponsored listings appeared and they were indeed served by JumpTap.

Mobile Search Kinda Sucks - But Does Anyone Care?

Posted by Nadir on October 21st, 2007

Peggy Anne Salz wrote a post at MSearchGroove where she discusses about the findings of a mobile search study made my Informa.

Most of the articles on the Wall Street Journal website are only available to paying subscribers. Rupert Murdoch said that he may make the site free but there’s already a way to view all articles on WSJ.com for free.

Yahoo! To Officially Launch Mobile Digital Content Search

Posted by Nadir on October 18th, 2007

Back in march, Yahoo! announced the launch of its Mobile Publisher Services. As part of these services is the Mobile Media Directory, which is basically a way for mobile content providers to have their content indexed in Yahoo OneSearch and be searchable by mobile users.