Entries from Search Engine Roundtable tagged with 'mobile'

Earlier this week, Reuters said that Google has announced technology to provide brand images on cell phones. In other words, based on a user's query, they'll be provided with some sort of image advertisement that has been scaled to fit...

Posted on April 25, 2008 9:25 AM

Google renders their ads on an Apple iPhone almost exactly like they would on a normal web browser, but with a few changes. (1) It appears that Google will not show as on the right hand side of the search...

Posted on April 1, 2008 8:17 AM

A ZDNet editor was looking at Google's robots.txt file when he stumbled upon an entry for http://www.google.com/m/lcb. It looks to him like a brand new Google Mobile interface that can pinpoint your approximate location and give you suggested places to...

Posted on March 25, 2008 9:48 AM

Bryson Meunier posted a characteristics of the top 100 mobile search queries at AT&T. The top five keywords, in order, are "google," "yahoo," "sports," "facebook," and "myspace." Further, Bryson says that mobile users are looking for navigational options as opposed...

Posted on January 31, 2008 9:15 AM

A Cre8asite Forums member asks how a site is differentiated by Google as a mobile site or as a regular website that may not be included in Google's mobile web search. What are the criteria for being categorized as a...

Posted on December 11, 2007 9:45 AM

Google is testing technology that will find you if you're lost, as long as you're equipped with a cell phone (and even if the cell phone doesn't have a GPS receiver). The new tracking feature introduced Wednesday is being touted...

Posted on November 30, 2007 9:09 AM

Yesterday, Google announced the Open Handset Alliance: open source mobile software. WebmasterWorld reaction is mixed. Some feel that Microsoft is threatened, whereas others think that the average consumer will probably not opt in for Google's mobile operating system because they...

Posted on November 6, 2007 9:13 AM

First came Google Voice Search, and now Microsoft has followed suit. The LA Times reports that Microsoft has rolled out Live Search Mobile: Live Search Mobile, which users have to download to their handsets, displays listings and driving directions on...

Posted on October 18, 2007 9:44 AM

Yesterday, Google announced that it had acquired Jaiku, a microblogging platform similar to my favorite Twitter. According to Google's announcement, current Jaiku members are still able to use the service but Google is now focused on expanding the technology behind...

Posted on October 10, 2007 9:15 AM

A WebmasterWorld thread points to recent research on mobile search in a document entitled Deciphering Trends in Mobile Search (PDF link). The Google team (a Ph.D student and senior staff researcher) analyzed data on over 1 million page views from...

Posted on October 9, 2007 9:47 AM

The Yahoo! Search Blog has announced that Yahoo! Site Explorer is out of beta. Yahoo has also announced that Site Explorer has added functionality for users to submit sitemaps for their mobile device-friendly websites through the control panel. WebmasterWorld has...

Posted on April 16, 2007 12:20 PM

Chris Sherman starts the session off by introducing Mobile Search as an ever-increasing build-up of new ideas that will soon catch up with earlier expectations of consumers. You can't optimise for mobile in the same way as you do for...

Posted by evilgreenmonkey on April 10, 2007 3:34 PM

A post on Cre8asite Forums asks if Google is considering addressing the needs for mobile users when they search. The member says that web results that are tailored to mobile phones are mixed with regular web results that may not...

Posted on April 2, 2007 6:59 AM

Yesterday Google announced Gmail Mobile Client, where you go to http://gmail.com/app on your mobile device and it detects the necessary software to install on that device. So the first thing I did was try it out on my Treo 700p....

Posted on November 3, 2006 6:59 AM

The seventh edition of the Search Pulse has now been archived. This show was jammed packed with coverage from the past three weeks. We introduced the show with a look at how the industry including Google, Yahoo!, Microsoft, Ask.com and...

Posted on November 1, 2006 2:33 PM

I am not going to do an other review of Ask Mobile Search, I did so already at SEW blog. You can access Ask Mobile search at http://m.ask.com/ or http://mobile.ask.com/. A WebmasterWorld forum thread asks why is no one complaining...

Posted on October 13, 2006 8:52 AM

A WebmasterWorld thread asks when will we see Google AdSense ads for mobile sites? Currently, you can put AdSense on normal web sites and RSS feeds. But when will we see Google add the ability to place ads on your...

Posted on October 9, 2006 7:24 AM

Tracking your metrics is vital in today's world of marketing, no one would argue with that. But when it comes to tracking PPC campaigns down to the phone call, it can get expensive and cumbersome. Discovery, Moderator at SEW Forums...

Posted on September 26, 2006 7:16 AM