Sci/Tech ; Google search via mobiles
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Sci/Tech News, SAN FRANCISCO: Google Inc. announced a new test service that allows people to use mobile phones or handheld devices to tap Google&#39;s Web search via text messages, or short message service.
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Mobile search is set to explode with the entry of the iPhone and its competitors to the market. Is your site ready for mobile search?
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Google Inc. GOOG.O is   introducing a new search service that only a geek could love.
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Google Inc. on Thursday formally launched a new search service aimed at scientists and academic researchers. Google Scholar is a free beta service that allows users to search for scholarly literature
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Wireless users can query the search site via text messages.
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China's Mobile Search Leader Makes Its Services Available for Free to IM                     Users on Handheld Devices and PCs    SHANGHAI, China, Sept. 18 /Xinhua-PRNewswire/ -- mInfo(R) Inc.
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With Google Desktop Search, users can sift through their e-mail, files, Web history and chats to find information in the same way they search the Internet.
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(InfoWorld) - Fast Search & TransferÂ and InfoSpaceÂ have expanded the scope of a years-long collaboration in mobile search, aiming to improve the technology they offer to carriers and end users. The companies have developed a hosted search service they will offer to carriers, which in turn can offer it under their own brand, Fast Search and InfoSpace announced Monday. In recent years, Fast Search and InfoSpace have provided mobile search engines to carriers -- individually and jointly -- but this new service represents a deeper partnership that goes beyond joint licensing and marketing. It involves ongoing research and development as the vendors seek to edge out competitors in mobile search functionality. They will focus on improvements to the search index, development of a mobile ad platform, expansion of their existing filtering and recommendation capabilities, and refinement of "zero term" search, in which content is pushed out to users based on their preferences and profiles and without requiring a keyword query, said Michael Brady, Fast Search's senior director of mobile business development. Since 2001, Fast Search has focused on the enterprise search market, but it is convinced consumer mobile search is worth pursuing because it is expected to grow significantly in users and advertising revenue in the coming years, Brady said. InfoSpace specializes in mobile content delivery and search. Industry analyst Iain Gillott of iGR said carriers feel more comfortable with "white-label" deals because they like to maintain as much control as possible over subscribers. Having GoogleÂ or YahooÂ pushing ads directly to their customers terrifies them, Gillott said. A big challenge mobile search providers will face is getting users comfortable with search on their cell phones. "Search isn't the first thing that jumps to mind when you open up your phone," Gillott said. Fast Search and InfoSpace will need to work with carriers to make their search engine visible and easily accessible on handsets, he said. The mobile search ad market is so small and new that Jupiter Research considered it almost nonexistent until the end of 2006, although the market research company plans to issue a forecast for it this year, analyst Julie Ask said. There is no clear market leader at this very early stage of the game. The main ad-related challenge for mobile search providers will be to gain a big enough audience for their inventories of ads, Ask said. Then comes the issue of relevance. "If I am online and type 'Bruce Springsteen' into Google, I receive 2.75 million listings. This is useless on a mobile device. They need to assume that I have intentions that are different on a mobile device than on my PC," Ask said. For example, if a user enters the name of a recording artist such as Springsteen, the mobile search engine should assume the user may be looking for ringtones, wallpaper photos, or concert tickets, Ask wrote.
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Consumers have huge incentive to flock to mobile search. As such, now's an excellent time for search specialists to get into the mobile search market.
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Live Search Books rivals Google Book Search, but limits selection.
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Google has a problem -- a good one.
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One of the major issues plaguing search engines right now is the growing list of web documents available online. While no exact numbers are available, there are billions of search results to sort through. But, they can&#8217;t all be relevant both on material content and time &#8212; can they?  Of course they&#8217;re not, and Google [...]
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Google has finally announced Google Desktop Search, a search application that enables users to search their email, files, web history, and chats.
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Google is working with mobile content providers on a search tool for cell phones.
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Nokia will integrate Google&#39;s search engine into its own search application on four of its latest phones unveiled at the Mobile World Congress, the companies said on Tuesday.Google will appear on the N96, N78, 6210 Navigator, and the 6220 classic in select markets at first. Eventually, the option will be extended to other handsets in more than 100 countries, Nokia said.Nokia has collaborated with Google before, although Google is increasingly encroaching on its partner&#8217;s turf.In Barcelona this week, several chip manufacturers are displaying&#160;prototypes of mobile phones using Google&#39;s Android software stack. If other phone manufacturers embrace Android, it could eventually pose a challenge to Nokia&#39;s dominating share of the mobile market.Nokia first integrated Google&#39;s search engine on its Internet tablet PCs. The company also enabled support for Google&#39;s YouTube video-sharing Web site on its popular N95 phone.The Google search option will supplement Nokia&#39;s Search software, which is free to download and compatible with a range of the company&#39;s handsets. That search function can be used to find content on the phone as well as on the Internet.
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Google has launched a beta test version of a text service that allows people to use mobile phones to search the Web via text messages.
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With no fear of the confusion that can arise from text-message shorthand, a new search service is employing a novel tool to answer queries sent by cell phones: human beings.