Tag: search
Yahoo announces upgrade to OneSearch 2.0 voice-recognition mobile search software
More news from CTIA over in Las Vegas, this time from the Yahoo camp, who certainly isn’t letting bully-boy Microsoft get in the way of their new innovations.
Unveiled yesterday was their voice-enabled search function for mobile phones, OneSearch 2.0, created in partnership with voice-recognition firm Vlingo. It’s been in existence since early 2007, with 29 mobile network carriers offering the service.
Simply by speaking…
Microsoft's new BigSnapSearch search engine, giving you prizes galore
Those kurazy comedic chaps, Dick and Dom, are the latest ‘stars’ to be cuddled under the big feathery Microsoft wing, as they’ve lent their name to a microsite launched by the big M, BigSnapSearch.
When used as a normal search engine, it gives users the chance to win prizes such as paintballing excursions, Virgin vouchers, and even a holiday for two to Richard Branson’s Virgin getaway, Necker Island.
Like a Snap card game, when a pair…
MWC 2008: Taptu wins all-important award at MWC, continues to aid in mobile search
We’ve been getting excited about Taptu for months now, so it’s fantastic to see they won the Global Community Award at the MoMo Peer Awards last night at the Mobile World Congress, rewarding our confidence in this small English start-up to no end.
No doubt you’ve forgotten exactly what they’re made of, and how exactly they can revolutionise the way you use your mobile phone. Taptu is a search engine for your mobile, allowing you to gain content categorised into the various forms it exists – video, image, song, wiki, etc, then after you’ve discovered the perfect page deconstructing Morrissey’s lyrics, you…
MWC 2008: Nokia collaborates with Google to offer search engine on handsets
Announced today, Nokia is to roll out Google’s search engine across many of their handsets, predominantly yesterday’s new N96, N78, 6210 Navigator and 6220 Classic models.
The search engine will be integrated into their Nokia Search application, which already offers easy access to the web, and the ability to search content on the actual handsets.
“Adding Google to Nokia Search provides mobile users with fast, relevant and comprehensive search experience that…
Loc8tor Lite – smaller, lighter and cheaper
Loc8tor has appeared on these pages many times and was reasonably well-received back in a 2006 review – although the ‘bulk’ of the handset was a concern. And that concern seems to have been taken on board with Loc8tor Lite.
Google takes on Wikipedia with Knol – "units of knowledge"
Wikipedia: often quoted, often defaced, often ridiculed, often found to be used as a credible source of information by major media organisations even though it contains erroneous information, and often to be found lurking at the top of Google’s search results for any given search phrase.
It seems that Google wants to dive into this world of collaboratively edited encyclopaedias with one of its own.
Currently being tested behind closed doors, with a selected group of people, “Knol” is a new service which sounds eerily like Wikipedia.
Flickr Places lets you see what Brighton looked like yesterday
Flickr Places is like one of those Google Maps “mash ups” that let you see all the back alleyways of Bratislava that Dave puked up in on his stag do last year.
The forthcoming application lets users see where the latest global hotspots are for picture uploads, with users..
Richard Branson hopes Google Earth will help find Steve Fossett
The search is continuing for pilot Steve Fossett, who’s gone missing over the Nevada desert. Former flying companion Richard Branson is turning to Google Earth in the hope that it might help find Fossett.
“I’m talking with friends at Google about seeing whether we can look at satellite images over the last four days to see whether they can see which direction he might have been flying and whether they can see any disturbances anywhere that they can pin from space,” he told the Canadian Broadcasting Corporation in an interview.
UK's 3 network adds Google Search and Maps to mobile portal
3 has announced that it’s done a deal with Google to put their search engine, plus Google Maps, onto the Planet 3 mobile portal from today.
Google Search will be offered as a choice alongside Yahoo Search, already on the portal.
Maps will be offered as a download, as well as being installed on the majority of new handsets able to run the application.
Shiny Video Interview: Kat speaks to Jason Calacanis of Mahalo.com about Google, Nick Denton, Ask.com and who his next frenemy will be
Last night I had the privilege of speaking to Jason Calacanis, fresh off the plane from the US., on his first trip to the UK. Here to attend the NMK Forum (from which I’m liveblogging from as we speak), he had some exciting news to announce the next day, of which we’ve since learnt is Mahalo’s Greenhouse. Take a look at the video to hear him talk about his online ‘rivals’…
