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The Big G released its first ever mobile application for the iPhone and iPod Touch last week. Dubbed the Google Mobile App, the application lets you search the web or your iPhone contacts, and includes many features you’d find within Google desktop search products (one of my favorites is Google Suggest).
The Google team released this video highlighting the Google Mobile App features:
It’s interesting to see Google’s investment in the iPhone platform, considering the Google Android phones are just a few months away from reality. Still, even Google knows it will take quite a while for the Android phones to knock the iPhone off it’s perch.
As mobile search usage continues to increase, so do the number of available services. The latest mobile search service I ran across is from the fun-loving folks at Taptu.
See how Taptu stacks up against Google Mobile in this video with tech blogger Robert Scoble:
Taptu is a mobile search service that runs on virtually any mobile browser (no downloads needed). Taptu goes beyond simple mobile search — they’ve incorporated a viral component which makes it easy for users to share content (pictures, videos, articles, etc.) with their friends via email or Twitter. For this reason and for its overall ease of use, Taptu has begun to set itself apart in this increasingly competitive mobile search space.
Test it against the rest and let us know what you think!
Since we last took a look at Microsoft’s Live Search for Mobile back in February, the team in Redmond has significantly enhanced it’s mobile search offering.
Through the new Products feature (in beta), Live Mobile users can now access detailed product information for a number of categories. For example, a search of the term “laptops” returned a summary view of four of the more popular laptops, including a product image, make and model, price range, and the number of stars based on user ratings.
The Live Mobile service also includes the other existing sections of results, which are included in the list below:
Products (beta)
Web
Images
News
Spaces
Local
Map
In order for the Local and Map to be enabled, the user must set their location either by entering their zip code or portion of their address themselves, or by utilizing the new “Find My Location” feature. This recently-added feature gets the location of the user through triangulation of nearby cell phone towers.
Try it out the next time you are making a large purchase and see if your price is competitive.
