JumpTap – Pure Mobile Search

Posted on January 11, 2007 by Dennis Bournique

Jumptap is a mobile search, advertising and content delivery (think ring tones and games) startup that got $22 million in round C funding recently. Their search business provides a “white label” search box on mobile carrier portals. Other white label search companies include FAST, InfoSpace and Medio. Compared to Google or Yahoo, white label search vendors claim to generate more revenue for the carrier by sharing a larger percentage of advertising dollars and by giving prominent placement in search results … Continue reading →

Sensis Search

Posted on October 15, 2006 by Dennis Bournique

Update: wap.sensis.com.au is giving me 403 (Forbidden) errors, however mobile.sensis.com.au seems to working with the same content. I’ve changed the urls in this article to the mobile… variant. Sensis is one of the many brands belonging to Australian fixed and mobile telecommunications and Internet giant Telstra (Wikipedia). The Sensis brand is used for Yellow and White pages directories both online and mobile and for an online web search engine, www.sensis.com.au – “The search engine for Australians”. Sensis search’s default behavior … Continue reading →

New Mobile Search Engines

Posted on October 14, 2006 by Dennis Bournique

Ask.com and Telestra, Australia’s largest mobile operator, both launched new mobile search portals this week. Ask’s offering features a web search that searches the full web using Ask’s own search engine. The results are transcoded for mobile usability by a white label version of Skweezer (review). It works well most of time, but for some reason, Ask’s transcoded pages don’t have the message and link ” Page optimized for mobile device, click here to view without Skweezer. ” that appears … Continue reading →

Yahoo Mobile Web Search

Posted on September 20, 2006 by Dennis Bournique

Yahoo quietly released a major upgrade to their mobile web based search product last month. I’m surprised that there wasn’t more buzz on this as I think it’s a pretty big deal. I can’t find an official Yahoo announcement and only one blogger, a Yahoo employee, seems to have written anything about it. So what’s new? The big change is that when you do a Web search, Yahoo now includes mobile sites in the results – Yahoo used to only … Continue reading →

Mobile Web (un)Usability

Posted on August 9, 2006 by Dennis Bournique

My fellow mobilist and host of this weeks Carnival of the Mobilists, Daniel Taylor at Mobile Enterprise Weblog has posted an interesting piece on mobile web usability or lack there of. Daniel’s article, Who Designs This Stuff? describes the difficulties and frustrations that he experienced trying to accomplish something on the mobile web that should have been easy – getting the arrival time of a airline flight. The problems Daniel experienced are typical of the frustration that many users experience … Continue reading →

411Sync

Posted on August 5, 2006 by Dennis Bournique

The mobile web has really been exploding with new sites lately. The most interesting one I’ve seen is 411Sync, a site with an easy to use and very flexible API that lets content providers do mobile mashups of all sorts of query based services like driving directions, transit schedule lookups or even just plain old RSS feeds. Oliver Starr at Mobile Crunch already did a great write up of Sync411. I just want to add a little to what Oliver … Continue reading →

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