The Battle for Mobile Search

[iambrutus]

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When it comes to Web search engines, Google is the winner by a wide margin, handling nearly twice the requests of its closest competitor, Yahoo! After all, people use Google as a verb synonymous with Internet research. But while cell phone users may say they're going to "Google" something on the Web, there's a good chance the search engine giant may not even be involved.
The emergence of Internet-connected mobile phones, or what's known as the Mobile Web, is turning the wireless search business into a horse race?one that's too close to call. Unlike its dominant role in search on the computer, Google's (GOOG) slim U.S. lead in search via mobile phones is far from secure.

 

[Hodge]

Google mobile search can be nice, but I personally don't like it that much. I nearly exclusively use Google on a PC, but mobile is a different story. It could be real useful on a cell phone as it optimizes the target page for a mobile browser. However, I have a Palm TX that deals with real pages pretty well. So it gets annoying that Google strips the page when I can in fact display everything.