Ask and thou shall receive, especially if the information you’re looking for happens to be on Wikipedia. AskMeNow, Inc. has announced an agreement with Wikimedia Foundation to provide mobile search for Wikipedia, the user-generated online encyclopedia. The companies have announced a preliminary agreement to introduce a natural language desktop search, and following this will also launch a free Mobile Wikipedia service. This would allow users to ask queries and get the answer results directly to their mobile handsets. AskMeNow, which launched in 2005, currently utilizes technology to offer natural language-based interaction and and dynamic content provision for simple and quick information retrieval.

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