2010: The Year of Mobile Search??
Filed under: Mobile, Paid Search — Tags: high-end devices, Mobile, mobile optimisation, Paid Search, smart phones, wap devices — Jacqui Tourle @ Thursday, February 4th, 2010While every year for the past five has been heralded ‘the year of mobile’, will 2010 take the crown? I don’t think it’s quite time yet, but it is time we all sat up & took notice of how consumers are using search on mobile phones.
There are two ways to target paid search ads to consumers using mobiles:
1. Users on WAP-enabled mobile phones (eg BlackBerry and the host of internet-enabled standard handsets)
Google vs Bing: Searching For Coffee Shops On iPhone
Filed under: Mobile, Search Engines, Updates — Tags: bing, bing mobile search, Google, google mobile search, iphone, local search, Mobile — David Boyd @ Monday, August 10th, 2009I like to drink coffee and fortunately for me there is no shortage of coffee shops in the area. Infact, there are no less than six coffee shops on the block where the Outrider Sydney office is located.
So to satisfy my curiousity I wanted to compare mobile search results on Google vs Bing when looking for “coffee shop cremorne” on the iPhone. How do the search engine results look and perform on iPhone and if I was searching would I actually find a coffee shop?
Google Product Search for Mobile
Filed under: Search Engines, Updates — Tags: Google Base, Google Product Search, Mobile — Ian Lavelle @ Friday, April 24th, 2009Google officially announced on their blog on Thursday that they’ve released Google Product Search for mobile. I know personally I would find this very useful, as there have been many times I’ve been in a store pondering a purchase yet hold back until I can get online and read a couple of reviews. (more…)
