Sameer Shisodia of Ziva Software

21:17 | Kamla Bhatt | Mar 30th, 2007 11:21am |

India has the fast growing mobile market in the world, and Bangalore is the hotbed of mobile innovations and start-ups. Mobile search is the new hot word in India, and Ziva Software wants to be a significant player in this area.

The one-year-old mobile search company is located in an incubator at the Indian Institute of Sciences, in South Bangalore. (South Bangalore has a familiar look and feel to it and it suddenly strikes you that it looks a whole lot like North First Street in San Jose.)

Ziva’s search ecosystem platform, called MANAS, has been built around a bunch of unique patent pending technologies. MANAS currently powers some of the biggest information services brands in India, as well as mobile content providers. The names of Ziva’s clients have not been disclosed due to NDA.

Last week Ziva launched its first service called Zook. Zook is available bot on GPRS and via SMS. As Sameer puts it, Zook is a leisure and entertainment-focused service with a social networking dimension to it.

“I do believe this is the first multiple-sources search for cell content, and the interactive paradigm will work well on phones,” he says.

Ziva recently announced that it received funding from