Yahoo today added the ability to query its search engine through a short text message on a mobile phone in the United States. Yahoo SMS Search can be used to get weather, local listings, stock quotes and other short bits of information, which analysts say is the way we will gather much data in the future. “I’m a big believer in mobile searching for certain types of information,” Gary Price, librarian and news editor of SearchEngineWatch, said.
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Yahoo Adds SMS Text Searches to Lineup
Posted by: Susan B. Shor July 7, 2005 11:26 AMYahoo today added the ability to query its search engine through a short text message on a mobile phone in the United States. Yahoo SMS Search can be used to get weather, local listings, stock quotes and other short bits of information, which analysts say is the way we will gather much data in the future. “I’m a big believer in mobile searching for certain types of information,” Gary Price, librarian and news editor of SearchEngineWatch, said.