Tag Archives: Search

Found On The Mobile Web #221

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Found on the Mobile Web is a weekly WAP Review feature listing newly added and updated sites on the YesWAP.com mobile portal and WapReview mobile site directory. With these latest additions the directory and portal now list 2270 mobile sites. Games Ancient Legion mobile2.ancientlegion.com Ancient Legion is a free mobile massively multiplayer online RPG. You can play missions, challenge others to battle, create and join clans, participate in game chatrooms, and play mini-games to increasing your heroes’ powers, abilities and … Continue reading →

Found On The Mobile Web 182

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Found on the Mobile Web is a weekly WAP Review feature listing newly added and updated sites on the YesWAP.com mobile portal and WapReview mobile site directory. With these latest additions the directory and portal now list 1939 mobile sites. Shopping Petco Reviews m.petco.com User reviews and ratings of pet products carried by U.S. brick and mortar pet shop chain Petco. Hundreds of reviews for some products but no online shopping. Source: Oh! Mobile Directory Content: Usability: Weather WAPFORECAST wapforecast.com … Continue reading →

Microsoft – Yahoo: Bad News For Mobile Search

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By now you’ve probably heard about the Microsoft – Yahoo deal. Yahoo will shutter their search engine and instead source search results from Microsoft’s Bing. There are lots of details about advertising revenue share that I won’t bore you with. If you are interested in that sort of thing, Barry Schwartz at Search Engine Land has a good summary. While probably necessary for Yahoo’s survival, I’m worried about the future of my favorite mobile search engine,  Yahoo’s oneSearch. What I … Continue reading →

Found on the Mobile Web 172

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Found on the Mobile Web is a weekly WAP Review feature listing newly added and updated sites on the YesWAP.com mobile portal and WapReview mobile site directory. With these latest additions the directory and portal now list 1800 mobile sites. Technology/Internet Abduzeedo m.abduzeedo.com Abduzeedo is a beautifully designed site by Brazilian web designer Fabio Sasso. It has design news, site reviews and tutorials to help you do more with Photoshop, Illustrator, Fireworks, Pixelmator, GIMP and CSS. Fabio created the mobile … Continue reading →

Quick.as – New Mobile Start Page

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Quick.as is a new web and mobile portal or start page. It offers a single search box that lets you search with a dozen different search engines on basic phones and over a hundred different search engines ranging form Google and Yahoo to the Shenzen Stock Exchange and The Pirate Bay on the desktop and phones that support JavaScript Quick.as is not a meta-search engine, you have to choose a single search engine for each query, Quick.as claims to detect … Continue reading →

How to Use the Bing API to Search the Mobile Web

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When Microsoft released the Bing API I speculated that it should be possible to use it to build a real Mobile Web search engine.  By “real” I mean one that would search exclusively for mobile optimized Websites.  I finally got around to trying it today, it was pretty easy, thanks to some some sample code I found on the Bing Developer Website, and it  works surprisingly well. I wrote my search engine in PHP5.  It uses Bing’s JSON API.  I … Continue reading →

Bing Mobile Buries and Transcodes Mobile Web Sites

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Microsoft unveiled their new search engine Bing, last week with considerable fanfare.  Thanks to Google’s Wave announcement the same day it probably didn’t get as much press coverage as it deserved. Bing replaces Live Search and MSN Search.  Initial reviews  have been quite positive. Billed as a “Decision Engine”, Bing on the desktop has some nice touches including auto completion of queries, a list of related searches  in the left sidebar and  infinitely scrolling results rather than pagination for  image … Continue reading →