Sunday, January 30, 2005
Send Yahoo! Search Results To Your Phone Via SMS
Posted by Ed Hansberry in "CONTENT" @ 05:00 PM
http://www.internetweek.com/breakingNews/showArticle.jhtml?articleID=59100649
"Yahoo Inc. is providing mobile text messaging with local search from the desktop, reflecting the trend among search engines to target the growing popularity of cellular-phone messaging, particularly among teenagers and young adults. With the Yahoo service, a person can look up a restaurant or other business on the web portal's local search area and click on a "send to phone" button that will send a text message containing the name, address, phone number and cross street of the business, Yahoo officials said Friday. Depending on the carrier, the person may be able to dial the number by simply clicking on it."
Sort of wrong headed thinking in my opinion. I want to be able to get the data from my phone, or PDA in my case, without the need of a desktop. Google has a true SMS service that does that already. I wonder why Yahoo! is launching something like this several months after Google did and having less versatility? Am I missing something?
"Yahoo Inc. is providing mobile text messaging with local search from the desktop, reflecting the trend among search engines to target the growing popularity of cellular-phone messaging, particularly among teenagers and young adults. With the Yahoo service, a person can look up a restaurant or other business on the web portal's local search area and click on a "send to phone" button that will send a text message containing the name, address, phone number and cross street of the business, Yahoo officials said Friday. Depending on the carrier, the person may be able to dial the number by simply clicking on it."
Sort of wrong headed thinking in my opinion. I want to be able to get the data from my phone, or PDA in my case, without the need of a desktop. Google has a true SMS service that does that already. I wonder why Yahoo! is launching something like this several months after Google did and having less versatility? Am I missing something?
