The Top 10 Mobile Search Engines
Arnaud Mangasaryan kindly contributed this Top 10 list of Mobile Search Engines: He is the author of Ramenos Blog (French/English) where this post appeared.
Yahoo Mobile Search: Yahoo has created a mobile version of its search engine. However, it is not a simple copy. Results are totally different. Search engine has a new interface and results are not only links.
Google Local: Google local is a mobile search engine which enables to find a service near your geographic position. Interface is minimalist but services are fast. Search results return name of the service, a phone number, address and a small Google map.
Ask Mobile : a classical mobile search engine of Ask company. Choose your research type with your mobile phone touch number s(1:web search, 2:directions, 3:images…). Search results are accessible with mobile phone touch numbers too.
Msn mobile: the mobile search engine of Microsoft. Interface is bigger than other mobile search because you have a default information start page with MSN news, weather, sports information, money information and entertainment.
Picasa mobile: a mobile image search of Google company. Just write a name and the service returns to you thumbnails results. In results, you can have your favorite pictures.
Nuance : Nuance is a providing of speech and imaging solution for businesses and consumers around the world. Nuance Voice Search is a mobile voice search to use web search, music search and navigation solutions.
M-Spatial : M-Spatial mobile search is a local search, such as Google local. However, results are richer than Google Local (not only a text and small map).
Medio: a mobile search engine of the Medio company, specialized on mobile search and advertising.
Jumptap: a mobile search engine which includes wap sites, web sites and off-portal content.
4info : a mobile search engine specialized in SMS Search and alerts from Sport, Business, Travel and Entertainment fields.
September 3rd, 2007 at 6:00 am
Hi,
I like that you publish this type of articles, but isn’t it misleading
to call it Top 10 mobile search engines, when you read the original article
the author tells that he was asked to send a list of mobile search engines
he has seen on the Web, and on top lists shouldn’t be a criteriums like the most used, better ranked etc?.
I am sending below a review of one of the probably many missing in this list
http://www.itbcellular.com/pr/14825
it might be useful to have a longer list?
Best wishes
Rocio A. Chongtay
mobilePeople A/S
September 11th, 2007 at 8:12 pm
It’s not a big one, but there’s another free mobile search engine/service called Mosio. It’s a mobile community that allows users to text (SMS) any question from their phones and have it answered by real people.
They call it “people powered mobile search”. Looks new, so definitely not top 10 by size (Rocio’s comment noted), but it’s a pretty cool site and very useful.
More info: http://www.mosio.com