mobile phone search, services

An article this week in USAToday -- "Are Google, Yahoo the next dinosaurs?" -- looks at the future of search on mobile phones and wireless technologies. The mobile environment is vastly different from the desktop and may require a different model and/or different technologies. The size of a mobile phone screen limits the amount of both information and advertising that can be displayed for any one search. Desktop search technologies crawl the entire web and a simple search can produce thousands of results -- not practical for the mobile environment. Google and Yahoo are taking different approaches in their quests to dominate the growing mobile search market.....