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More Details on Yahoo!’s Deal With Novarra

Posted by Nadir on August 2nd, 2007

I recently had the pleasure to speak with Simon Hunt, Novarra’s CTO. The goal of my phone call was to know more about the the deal they signed with Yahoo!. Novarra will automatically repurpose websites that are part of Yahoo’s OneSearch results.

In its attempt to increase the size of its mobile web index, Yahoo! just announced that it’s now possible to submit more information about your mobile sites.

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.

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 […]