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How the interface changes with mobile search ...
"Mobile search has been quietly chugging along, with all the usual suspects and a big group of startups releasing their furtive efforts without too much fanfare. Things heated up last week with with separate announcements from giants Yahoo! and Google — with Yahoo saying it was working with SBC on a branded phone built around easy access to its mobile content, while Google released Google Local Mobile, a J2ME application for accessing its local and map services.
Searching on a mobile phone is a very different animal than web search, with most searches based around some task: I’m looking for the nearest Wi-Fi hotspot, what time does the movie start, what’s the weather forecast, and so on. Given the limitations of mobile devices and their user interfaces, search has to be approached very differently. Giving links to pages that might contain the information a user’s looking for doesn’t really work too well; returning the information directly instead is much more useful. Simply put, mobile search is a search for mobile information." continued ... (Via Gizmodo)
"Mobile search has been quietly chugging along, with all the usual suspects and a big group of startups releasing their furtive efforts without too much fanfare. Things heated up last week with with separate announcements from giants Yahoo! and Google — with Yahoo saying it was working with SBC on a branded phone built around easy access to its mobile content, while Google released Google Local Mobile, a J2ME application for accessing its local and map services.
Searching on a mobile phone is a very different animal than web search, with most searches based around some task: I’m looking for the nearest Wi-Fi hotspot, what time does the movie start, what’s the weather forecast, and so on. Given the limitations of mobile devices and their user interfaces, search has to be approached very differently. Giving links to pages that might contain the information a user’s looking for doesn’t really work too well; returning the information directly instead is much more useful. Simply put, mobile search is a search for mobile information." continued ... (Via Gizmodo)
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