{"id":100,"date":"2006-05-02T20:52:17","date_gmt":"2006-05-03T04:52:17","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/wapreview.com\/?p=100"},"modified":"2006-10-15T11:18:51","modified_gmt":"2006-10-15T18:18:51","slug":"wampadcom","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/wapreview.com\/100\/","title":{"rendered":"Wampad.com"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"I got an email from a fellow named Shawn McCollum asking me to take a look at his new mobile site, Wampad.com<\/a><\/em>. I believe that Shawn has actually created a new type of mobile site – a search based portal. The basic concept is that you enter a search phrase once and then use it to query a bunch of different sites.<\/p>\n

Wampad’s front page is simplicity itself. There’s just a drop down, a text box and a Go<\/em> button. You chose a type of search from the drop down, type something in the text box and press the button.<\/p>\n

So what kinds of things can you do with Wampad? Well for one, you can go to a website. If you choose “Website” from the drop down, enter “wapreview” and then press the button – you get a screen with four links; “Search for wapreview”, “go to www.wapreview.com”, “Go to www.wapreview.net” and “Go to www.wapreview.org”. So you have potentially saved yourself some typing. This may not be a big deal – many mobile browsers will add the “www.” and “.com” to an address if you leave them off – but that doesn’t help for .net or .org. But there’s a lot more. If go back to the Wampad front page, your search text is still there, at least with most browsers, and you can make a different selection from the drop down. There are 18 choices; \"<\/p>\n