For reference, go ahead and try a stock quote search on your favorite mobile search engine.
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Since the average revenue per search is lower on the mobile platform, mobile search growth will continue to weigh on the average cost-per-click metric that Google reports for its business overall.
The letter goes on to highlight mobile search as a particularly problematic arena.
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In the future, Facebook should launch new services like Graph Search on mobile first and desktop second, says Ty Amell, CEO of StackMob, a cloud-based mobile platform for developers.
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Facebook is also working on Graph Search implementation in mobile, all languages, Facebook posts and Open Graph integration (with apps).
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So when users search on their mobile device for local restaurants or a neighborhood dry cleaner, they reach for apps like OpenTable or Yelp rather than a mobile browser.
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Distinguishing mobile search from desktop search is meaningless when users use their tablets at home, perform activities that they would have performed at home away from home on mobile devices simply because they can, and where users sometimes search for places to go (for example) on mobile devices while out and sometimes on their computers before they leave.
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And despite its market share lead, most mobile searches happen on Apple devices and Google pays Apple a chunk of those mobile search revenues.
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Yelp also enables people to search for nearby businesses on mobile and has many more ratings than Foursquare.
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On a month-long vacation to India in mid-2006, he started to work on his own business plan for SMS mobile search, and persuaded angel investors Sasha Mirchandani and Prashant Choksey to back him.
Mayer: Mobile Web, default search engine on iPhone for those who have chosen to do that.
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But when that person is on a mobile device, ads for that flight search can be targeted to the person.
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Qwiki aims to supplant search engines on the iPad and other mobile devices, by providing multimedia answers to web queries.
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The recent announcement brings voice search on desktops, which was earlier available on mobile phones.
The company, which plans to trade on the Nasdaq under the ticker KYAK, provides web and mobile search for airline tickets and hotel rooms.
Search for "San Francisco restaurants" on your mobile and you don't want to see 40 names, you just want to know whether your favorite cuisine is around the corner.
And he adds that Instant on mobile could prove even more important than adding the service to desktop search.
Specialist dog teams were drafted in to help in the search for the office administrator on Thursday after detectives using mobile phone technology pinpointed several areas of interest in the 4, 500-acre forest.
On Tuesday, Baidu chief executive, Robin Li, said the firms mobile search traffic was growing at triple digit rates.
Android is designed to ensure that Google's Internet search, maps and other services will be a mainstay on mobile devices.
Since contextual information can accelerate searches on mobile devices, Microsoft built more ways to scour the web via its search engine, Bing.
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They'll include iMessages, the texting feature already available on mobile devices, speech-to-text dictation and predictive "smart search" in the Safari browser.
Maybe not as much as ReadWriteWeb suggests, but it does tell us that Google is far better positioned in mobile than Facebook currently is, with its search interface prominent on the bulk of smartphones globally.
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But the nature of search is changing, especially as more people search for what they want to buy, eat or learn on their mobile devices.
Google has rolled out applications that enhance shopping on-the-go including indoor maps as well as mobile coupons and targeted local search with rich data such as inventory, store hours, and consumer reviews.
We will continue to develop a broad range of services that complement our core search platform, including maps and personal services on the desktop and on mobile platforms, emphasizing collaboration with our strategic partners.
In fact, Google, on a high level, appears to be more like two companies: Search and Mobile Operating Systems.
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