July 6, 2005
Yahoo SMS Search Launches Tomorrow
Tomorrow Yahoo SMS Search launches. Text 92466 to test it out now. (via Om Malik)
Update: More news over at Yahoo Search blog.
Michael Nguyen | Search Engine Marketing, Yahoo | Comments (2)
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July 7th, 2005 at 5:42 am
Wow, it looks pretty good. I like how you can select your carrier/model, so they provide distinct services.
October 24th, 2005 at 3:55 pm
4INFO (shortcode 44636) has a similar text message offering, but provides several additional services that Yahoo! does not: sports scores (”packers” “nfl”), fantasy stats (”joe crede” “priest holmes”), movie times (”movies 92111″), flight times (”swa san jose san diego”) and a beta version of mobile download search. All these services can be accessed via SMS (44636), WAP (http://wap.4INFO.net ), or email to search@4INFO.net.
Why 4INFO instead of Yahoo?
“Both of the major Web search players, Google and Yahoo!, should not feel confident that they can leverage their brands so easily on mobile. These giants could learn a few good lessons from the smaller, lesser-known 4Info….”
- Wireless Business Forecast, 7/14/2005