The best mobile search engine?
Do you think Google is the best search engine for cell phones? Think again with Taptu’s Bob Last. He’s senior vice president of business development there and talks with me about search engines and how mobile phones aren’t well served by the major search engines from Yahoo, Google, or Microsoft.
Tags: Google, search engine, cell phones, Taptu, Bob Last, business development, mobile phones, Yahoo, Google, Microsoft
November 10th, 2007 at 12:17 am
[…] Robert Scoble has just compared Taptu versus Google for mobile search. Surprisingly, in some cases, Taptu is better than Google. Taptu works best for music and “fact finding” searches. It searches videos and web pages as well. […]
November 13th, 2007 at 3:26 am
Taptu is awesome for media.
In addition, for the great unwashed content on the mobile web, you should try
http://find.mobi
Absolutely right that incumbent success is not assured. Mobile is just, well, different.
(Perhaps only as different from the fixed web as PCs were from MiniComputers… but that was enough to warrant a revolution and some new kingmaking)