Mobile Search News
Mobile Apps Being Used To Discover Cities
11th August 2011
The development of mobile apps is now being used to help people discover things about cities. More »
Finally! London Underground On Google Maps
29th July 2011
Public transport routes in cities like New York and Chicago have been available on Google Maps for a long time now. This service has finally been extended to London. More »
Mobile Shopping Catches On In The U.K.
27th July 2011
It has been reported by The British Retail Consortium that mobile retail searches in the country are on the rise. More »
Apple’s Siri Could Upset Google’s Cart
23rd June 2011
Apple is expected to release the latest version of their mobile handset, the iPhone 5 soon, and it is believed that they will introduce some new features with it. Of particular note, is the fact that they are expected to add voice recognition services to this handset. More »
Travel Queries Through Mobile On The Rise
19th May 2011
In addition to the growing popularity of the use of mobile handsets for entertainment and photography, they are also increasingly used to make enquiries regarding travel and tourism. More »
Is Google’s Mobile Paid Search Monopoly A Good Thing?
10th March 2011
The increased use of mobile search has in turn led to the increase in the revenue generated by mobile paid search. Google dominates this space with a worryingly large market share. More »
Bing Launches Mobile & Desktop Deals
7th March 2011
Bing has recently launched a new feature that facilitates local commerce via their mobile and desktop search services. The new feature is shown as ‘Deals’ in the Bing menu. More »
SMS Top US Mobile Activity In 2010
10th February 2011
Several advances took place with regards to mobile phones in the U.S. in 2010. However, sending text messages remained the top mobile activity for the year that was pegged to be yet another “year of mobile”. More »
Google Guns For Mobile In 2011
5th January 2011
Since mobile search has been growing at such a phenomenal rate, it is only a matter of time before mobile paid search follows suit. 2011 is predicted to be the year, for this to happen, and for once, it actually may be true. More »
Mobile Search – An Opportunity For SMEs
20th October 2010
Reports released by Econsultancy for the second and third quarter of 2010 show that Google has clearly overtaken Bing as far as mobile search is concerned. SMEs were found to be most likely to benefit from developments in mobile search. More »
Android Most Popular On New Mobiles
12th October 2010
Data released by the Nielsen Company for the month of August indicates that Android has grown to be the most popular operating system among U.S. consumer who bought smartphones in the last six months. More »
Microsoft Struggles To Gain In Mobile Search
16th September 2010
Although Microsoft is doing quite well for itself in the desktop search market, they are still struggling to improve their position in the mobile search market. More »
Voice Search Is The Future
19th August 2010
While Google’s Android Operating System is giving the Apple iPhone a run for its money, Google has already started concentrating on voice search, which is likely to be the next “big thing”. More »
U.S. Mobile Searches Grow 90%
7th June 2010
MobiLens, a service of comScore, has just released a report on the growth of mobile applications and browser content. According to their findings, social networking has seen the largest amount of growth in both mobile as well as browser access. More »
Mobile Local Search To Reach 1.5 Billion Users By 2014
19th May 2010
Juniper Research predicts that mobile local search will be used by almost 1.5 billion people by 2014. More »
Google Mobile Updates Search, Latitude
6th May 2010
Following the updates made to the Google Web search results interface, Google has also updated the mobile search results pages. More »
Google Launches Place Pages For Mobile
29th April 2010
After the successful launch of Place Pages in conjunction with Google Maps, last fall, Google has now gone a step further and introduced Place Pages optimised for mobile handsets. More »
Will Apple Put Bing On iPhone?
29th January 2010
With the recent release of Google’s smartphone, the Nexus One, their relationship with Apple seems to be changing. The competition that the Nexus One provides to the iPhone is causing some friction between the two companies.As a result, Apple might sever ties with Google and find a new provider for search on the iPhone. More »
Mobile Internet Access To Overtake PCs In 2013
19th January 2010
Analysts have long predicted that mobile Internet access will overtake the PC. Gartner has now predicted when this will happen. More »
Google Announces Nexus One
5th January 2010
Google has confirmed the launch of the Nexus One mobile phone at a press event held at their Mountain View headquarters on 5 January 2010. The phone will be available to buy and use immediately, direct from their website. More »
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