Yahoo! is being aggressive with its new mobile portal, called oneSearch, and it shows. As a portal, Yahoo! knows that content is king, and that getting to said content is what Mobile 2.0 is all about. Enter oneSearch, a new page (at m.yahoo.com on your handset) that aggregates a large number of Yahoo!’s features onto one easy-to-use page, including Y! Messenger, Y! Movies, and even a handy portable version of flickr.
Even more, the service is really fast, not necessarily because the backend stuff is beefy, but rather because the content you’re looking for is grouped together in a fairly intuitive format. Finding tickets to 300 took less than 20 seconds on an EDGE connection, truly easy to use.
It’s part of the My Yahoo! service. While you could use it without logging in, you’d be doing yourself a disservice, as the system can use your preferences to speed up finding the information you’re looking for. And it’s free.
About oneSearch [http://mobile.yahoo.com/mobileweb/onesearch]
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I can appreciate the rush to get into the space. It is the future, and may always be, but the mobile search really has been completed. I think companies need to actually focus on what the consumers really want from the mobile experience instead of porting the desktop to your hand.
Wow - Yahoo offers a very interesting comparison between them and Google (see here: http://216.252.107.213/pdf/compare_onesearch.pdf)
Shuki
I waptap’d yahoo mobile to 51.waptap.at for faster type-in. I travel almost every week so I use mobile search daily and yahoo mobile has proved to be a great tool. Yahoo has had trouble getting things right lately, but this one they nailed perfectly.
Yahoo oneSearch is good for the normal searching of the web/wap, but lacks the users entertainment value, this is where oneSearch.mobi is different, Coincidently it does have the same name…good or bad…not sure (comments please) The oneSearch Mobile Entertainment Portal focuses on the end users experience, hopefully engaging them as a bore-dom buster while on the move, its still in its infancy, but users can find, the top mobile site directory just for .mobi (dotmobi) mobile sites, news, videos, photos, games, music, utilities, sport, movie trailers, plus much more being added all the time. We would love feedback on how we can make it even better, “the futures bright the futures mobile fun”..
All the best
Andy
oneSearch Mobile Entertainment
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