Yahoo Launches Text Message Search
Reuters reports that Yahoo is expanding Yahoo Mobile, a text message search tool, to work with multiple mobile phones including Cingular, Sprint, Verizon and others. The service will compete with Google's SMS Web search tool.
Both the SMS Web search and the Yahoo Search on Mobile services use shortcuts that take less time for users to input their queries.
For example, a user would send a text message to shortcode 92466, which spells Yahoo on a telephone keypad, with the text "pizza 94104" to retrieve a list of pizza restaurants near that Zip code.
Unlike Google, however, White said that once a user retrieves a reply from Yahoo's text message search service, they can refresh it without having to retype the query. That could be useful, he said, for retrieving the latest stock quote on a company.
Posted on July 7, 2005
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