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Google offers free voice-activated local search an experimental service that allows people to search for local businesses over the phone. There are no ads on the service.

Video and Mobile Search Take Center Stage Voice search – along with SMS – is currently the most user-friendly form of mobile local search…Proximity is extremely important once you have a GPS-based device. Local video advertising…an ecosystem that is beginning to form around the production and automated distribution of video advertising for small businesses.

Huge Gap In Mobile Search Results & Optimization, U.K. Study Finds Companies are well-advised to take the mobile Web, and their placement in mobile search results, more seriously,

24/7 Real Media Adds Mobile Ad Serving About a dozen publisher clients have begun implementing the Open AdStream Mobile Edition at an incremental cost.

MasterCard announces trial of mobile search and content service a new service that allows US MasterCard cardholders to use their mobile phones to access a wealth of helpful information, including ATM and merchant locations, driving directions, rewards and special offers, and much more.

Google introduces new mobile search service By using improved algorithms and factoring in a user’s location, the new mobile search engine delivers a more relevant list of web results than its previous version.

Nuance Delivers Speech-Based Search for Mobile Music Content This eliminates the need for mobile consumers to key in text or navigate complex menu hierarchies when searching for music or ringtones to download from the mobile Web.

Using Context to Improve Mobile Search Results an interesting look at a Google Phone patent that suggests Google could use a phone's location to determine relevant search results for the phone user.

'Follow the money' to local searches A Nokia executive recently said that 51 percent of cell phone users want to use maps and 31 percent want to search.

AOL Unveils Google-Powered Search Marketplace AOL and Google have unveiled a new search marketplace that will allow marketers to target ads specifically to AOL Search users, and to coordinate search campaigns with other kinds of ads on the AOL Network.

The 2007 Navteq LBS challenge... Putting Location-Based services On The Map! LBS is truly hot and up-and-coming... perhaps its not THE “killer app” but there’s no question, LBS is indeed a hot topic… 90 million people touch and use Navteq data in some form each and every day.

Beta Test a Dash Express: The internet-connected GPS an internet-connected GPS… integrated with Yahoo! Local Search.

80108 Launches Mobile Content A new Boston-based startup is looking to push unique local-event-related content to the text-messaging crowd.

Tailored to your taste Intense competition in the Indian mobile market is prompting the industry to look at value-added services or VAS to boost ARPU.

CDC Mobile: "Free to Play, Pay for Merchandise" Mobile Game in China The game is free to play but players can purchase useful tools to achieve desired combinations and reach higher levels, thus increasing satisfaction in this mind-stimulating game.

Mobango Increases Free Mobile Content Storage to One Gigabyte users of mobango.com, a site for publishing, converting and sharing user-generated content for mobile phones, now have access to 1Gb of memory for their "WAP locker."

Big FM to turn mobile phone content provider Diversifying from entertaining audience merely on air, Adlab Film Ltd's Big FM radio initiative will now venture into providing audio content to mobile users.

Mobile Content Publisher Cellfish Adds $10 Million to First Round Cellfish operates brands such as Barrio Mobile, BlingGames and BlingTones.

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Nokia Visualizes Mobile Search Google is not standing still on developing mobile search technology. Bill Slawski wrote at SEO by the Sea that a new patent application from Google has emerged. The patent would cover new software for searching with Google and reading.

Mobile Search: An American market to be cultivated A recent Bank of America research stated that revenue from mobile content will be $47 billion in 2010, up from $23 billion in 2006. The Internet online search giants are not giving up on Americans in utilizing mobile search.

Podcast: India has the fast growing mobile market in the world, and Bangalore is the hotbed of mobile innovations and start-ups. Mobile search is the new hot word in India, and Ziva Software wants to be a significant player in this area.

Hutch and Microsoft to offer Live Search for mobile Indian mobile service provider Hutch to offer Live Search for Indian mobile internet users for the first time have optimized access to mobile search engine that returns relevant results quickly.

deCarta Hosted Web Services Chosen by Mobio deCarta, the leading supplier of software platforms and services for the Location-Based Services (LBS) industry.

Analysis: Phone Apps Finally on a Diet Still vendors are anticipating the next Treo or Q, so they're building location-based services with an emphasis on travel, local search, and event planning.

TruePosition teams with GPShopper to offer wireless operators location-aware shopping services Location platform and provides mobile operators with a platform for offering carrier-branded and white-label services to meet local search and mobile ...

Almost one third of Japanese phone users have GPS GPS location map, 34, 50.7%. Walking navigator (EZ Navi Walk, NAVITIME, etc), 31, 46.3%. Local information search, 15, 22.4%. Locating services (Anshin Navi, etc), 6, 9.0%. Attaching location data to photographs, 4, 6.0%

Searching for Mobile Content Models develop Google Maps for mobile, a downloadable Java application that will include maps and local listings, local search and navigation capabilities.

Yellowpages.com Launches Text-based Mobile Local Search Search A Similar to the Starbuck's SMS search tool that we wrote about a few weeks ago, Yellowpages.com today announced text-based local search tool for mobile.

NAVTEQ Announced Winners of the Global LBS Challenge Sixteen Semifinalists, three Category winners and a Grand Prize winner were named in the following four categories:  Business, Entertainment & Leisure, Navigation and Social Networking. 

YP411 From AT&T's YELLOWPAGES.COM Brings Text Message Business The launch of YP411 bolsters the menu of mobile search services that YELLOWPAGES.COM has rolled out over the past few months, including a Send-to-Mobile.

Yahoo And Microsoft Fight For Mobile Search While Google Pushes for the Entire Third Screen Not to be outdone, Microsoft also is aggressively pushing mobile search with its Microsoft Live Search application on Windows Mobile. So where is Google?

Nokia's Secret Mobile Search Plans Google might be the king of web-based search, but the field is still wide open when it comes to mobile search. Many a few companies are taking different .

Big Week For Mobile Ad Deal Announcements iCrossing will also work with JumpTap to optimize iCrossing-built mobile sites for JumpTap's Mobile Search Index--a catalog of Web sites designed for mobile.

Google Has Killed the Mobile Web Google launched its new mobile search engine a few days ago.

Microsoft and InfoNow Join Forces to Help People More Easily Find  Discover and explore a specific location. Virtual Earth also powers Live Search Maps, Microsoft's online local search and mapping Web site.

Don't Argue Local Search Semantics, Embrace Them Consumers aren't going to change the terms they use to search locally just to make it easier on advertisers and search engine experts.