WSJ article: Google Plans Search Service for Mobile Content

[Tim]

Google is definitely maneuvering to capture the mobile market. ...Full Article... (http://online.wsj.com/public/article/SB118461672269867869-vFHnSZtA5io6FL9LUX_ddqWQ49I_20070815.html)


[...]Translating Internet search to the cellphone screen isn't trivial. While consumers search the Web for just about everything on PCs, cellphone users are usually interested in a much narrower universe of information, such as sports scores, the phone numbers of local businesses and media downloads like games and wallpaper[....]No kidding :hmmmm2:

[Gerry]

Key points of the article:

Translating Internet search to the cellphone screen isn't trivial. While consumers search the Web for just about everything on PCs, cellphone users are usually interested in a much narrower universe of information, such as sports scores, the phone numbers of local businesses and media downloads like games and wallpaper.

Google's mobile search isn't promoted by carriers, but consumers are beginning to discover it. Google has a separate search service that lets users send a text message to "googl," or 46645, to look up a local business.

It seems like these companies are slow to come around to the .mobi. In time, hopefully. But right now there is so much confusion out there regarding what to dial and how to access this and that and what to text when there is one and only one very easy and simple solution...mobi.