Yahoo in Mobile Phone Search Market with OneSearch 2.0

Search is market is perhaps the most lucrative market in the internet world today. Google has total dominance in the market and Google is the no. 1 player in the search engine field. Yahoo and Microsoft both are trying to get back some share from Google but it is not happening. Yahoo has taken initiative to make a strong presence in mobile phone search market. The number of mobile phone subscriber has raised more than 2 billion in the whole world but most people actually do not have internet facility in their mobile phone. This will change soon as more and more people are getting connected to internet with their mobile phone. So, Yahoo has taken the initiative to be the leader mobile phone search. Yahoo has introduced OneSearch 2.0 tool for mobile phone developers. This is an open search tool and that means that anyone can develop it and create application for it. This is a really a good tool from Yahoo and it will be helpful to spread mobile phone search in the whole world.

OneSearch 2.0 has other facilities too. For example, if you search a name of a person, it will bring result for you from social networking sites and by one even you can go to social networking sites like Face book directly from a mobile phone. This will save a lot of time for the users.

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