7 posts and columns on mobile search

Onetime Mobile Search Player Medio Aims for Rebirth as Analytics Company

in Mobile on March 17, 2011 at 5:00 am PT

The Seattle start-up briefly hoped to be the Google of mobile search. But after Google decided that it wanted to be the Google of mobile search, Medio had to go back to the drawing board. Now the company is pitching itself as the purveyor of a recommendation engine that can help phone makers and carriers better present apps and content to their customers.

Binging in the Holidays (With Donuts!)

in Mobile on December 15, 2010 at 9:42 am PT

Microsoft announced a bunch of new Bing updates, most notably deeper Facebook integration and a coming update for the iPhone app that allows users to upload their own panorama images.

Google: Mobile Queries Up 4X in the Past Year

in News on September 9, 2010 at 3:00 am PT

Mobile search has long been additive to PC search–away-from-home queries heaped atop the innumerable others conducted from our desks. But that’s changing, and rapidly, too, as evidenced by a metric offered by Nick Fox, Google’s director of product management, at the 2010 Citi Technology Conference Wednesday.

LIVE: Google Searchology

in News on May 12, 2009 at 10:13 am PT

The architects of Google search are holding court at company headquarters in Mountain View, Calif., this morning offering what promises to be a sort of state of the union on search. Overseeing the event, dubbed “Google Searchology”: Udi Manber, VP of Search Engineering, and Marissa Mayer VP of Search Products and User Experience. Key subjects: the challenge of solving every user problem, mobile search across multiple platforms and different UI schemes, and greater user customization through tools like SearchWiki and Google Search Options, a basket of new services just announced.
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Ballmer: Thanks a Lot, Seidenberg

in News on January 7, 2009 at 4:10 pm PT

Looks like “roughly twice what Google offered” was a good enough price to score Microsoft the highly coveted Verizon Wireless search deal. At an investor conference today, Ivan Seidenberg, CEO of Verizon Communications, said the company has struck a five-year deal with Microsoft to make its Live Search the default search engine on Verizon mobile phones.

Verizon to Microsoft: Hey Big Spender

in News on November 7, 2008 at 6:05 am PT

If Microsoft’s leadership were to author a 600-page guide to competitive strategy, it would consist of this sentence repeated over and over again, “The Shining” style for half of them: It’s always easier to buy your way into a profitable market, than earn it. So it is that, Microsoft–which has been paying people to use its Live Search engine to find and purchase products online–is now working to buy its way into the mobile search market by outbidding Google on the search giant’s deal with Verizon.

Google and Verizon: Best Enemiends Forever

in News on August 22, 2008 at 11:58 am PT

The prospect of a mobile revenue stream larger than the $16.6 billion in desktop revenues Google reported in 2007 has inspired the company to put its 700 MHz spectrum spat with Verizon behind it. And now the companies are becoming fast frienemies … or is it enemiends?