Google mobile team has just announced its new Image Search for for Android, iPhone, and iPod touch in the US, the UK, and Japan. Users in these three countries can search for images base on keywords, up to 20 images will be displayed on a single page. You can then either view a larger thumbnail, open the website link or ... continued »

Verizon Wireless has selected Microsoft to provide portal, local and Internet search as well as mobile advertising services to customers on its devices. The five-year agreement will go into effect in the first half of 2009 when Microsoft Live Search is targeted to be available on new Verizon Wireless feature phones and smartphones. continued »

Acision and Seeker Wireless have partnered with SPH Search, a subsidiary of Singapore Press Holdings (SPH), to launch the nation's first cross-telco mobile search marketing solution called Rednano Locate. Enabled by Acision's expertise in mobile marketing and Seeker Wireless' location-based solution called SeekerLocate, Rednano Locate is a mobile application that allows consumers to do a keyword search on more than 100,000 ... continued »

Is it better to receive search result in thumbnail instead of text based? Searchme has announced the availability of its visual search engine for mobile devices. Searchme's engine delivers results as a browsable list of "pages" - pictures of actual web pages that users can check out before visiting them. All mobile users can now access the engine at m.searchme.com. continued »

comScore M:Metrics reports that in June 2008, 20.8 million U.S. mobile subscribers and 4.5 million European mobile phone subscribers accessed search during the month, an increase of 68 and 38 percent from June 2007, respectively. The U.K. had the highest penetration of mobile subscribers using search at 9.5 percent, followed closely by the U.S. at 9.2 percent. continued »

AT&T and Yahoo! announced that beginning today Yahoo! oneSearch will powers mobile Internet searches made through AT&T's on-deck MEdia Net portal. continued »

23half announced the availability of Thrrum MMS Search to T-Mobile and Verizon wireless subscribers. Thrrum MMS Search enables camera phone users to find and browse information related to their physical environment using the MMS service integrated into their phones. Users can capture a picture of any text with their auto-focus or macro mode equipped camera phone and send the picture ... continued »

23half announced the availability of Thrrum MMS Search to Sprint wireless subscribers. Thrrum MMS Search enables camera phone users to find and browse information related to their physical environment using the Picture Messaging service integrated into their phones. Users can capture a picture of any text with their camera phone and send the picture as a picture message to m@thrrum.com. ... continued »

Google team have announced an improvement on their mobile homepage, which allows you to load the mobile web page faster. continued »

23half announced the launch of Thrrum MMS Search. The service enables camera phone users to find and browse information related to their physical environment using the Multimedia Messaging Service (MMS) integrated into their phones. Users can capture a picture of any text with their camera phone and send the picture as an MMS to m@thrrum.com. Relevant search results are then sent ... continued »