YAMSE: Yet Another Mobile Search Engine
If Search is hot then Mobile Search is Tara Reid. InfoSpace, one of the few Internet 1.0 companies that are still surviving (even if by selling ringtones!), is planning to launch a mobile search engine within this year. On MSNBC:
In the next 12 months, InfoSpace Mobile will launch a mobile search engine that enables users to make searches in two ways — by speaking into the handset or typing. Instead of generating 20 or more results, like most traditional search engines, InfoSpace Mobile’s new engine will generate the two or three best results.
So it’s getting really interesting now. On one side we have companies like MotionBridge, mSearch (FAST), Qix (Zi Corp) and 4Info (are there more that I havn’t heard of?) doing more of a specialised mobile search. And on the other side we have generic search engines like Google, Yahoo and Ask Jeeves.
What we don’t have yet is Microsoft.
[via fiercewireless]
