Search Briefs
MSN Windows Live Mobile Site Adds Web Search; Live Mail Beta Now Accessible; Spaces for Mobile (Beta) Enhances Offerings
When MSN relaunched their mobile site last August the main search offering was local search. That has changed. The mobile site (we accessed on a Treo 650) and can be seen here on a non-mobile browser now serves up access to MSN Live Search web results to MSN Mobile users. So, what search options will you currently find?
+ Web Search (Note that each result can be optimized for mobile browsers via a proxy if the user selects the “mobile” link)
+ Local Search with driving directions
+ MSN Spaces Search
+ Improvements to MSN Spaces” Mobile Beta
Windows Live Mobile users can also customize the layout of their page, create personalized stock lists, enter home/work addresess to save time and clicks, add a growing number of alerts (we still find the traffic alert very useful) and more.
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Mobile Searching: Google, Yahoo and Many Others
Great to see ResourceShelf fave 4info.net featured in article. Btw, Promptu offers speech recognition search for some mobile devices. In other words, speak your search. Other mobile players include:
+ Yahoo Mobile
+ Smarter.com
+ Synfonic.com
+ UpSnap.com (live audio too including podcasts!)
+ MSN Mobile (several services and expanding)

As the summer rolls on, look for another ResourceShelf initiative, Gary’s mobile bookmark collections.
Postscript: Don’t forget that cameraphone searching is slowly but surely developing traction.

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