Dare to Compare - Mobile Search

Soon after Yahoo! launched this new mobile search, oneSearch (news:Yahoo jumps ahead of Google on mobile phone search), Google tried to catch up with by adding a link to another search page with some new feature, just like Y!'s oneSearch (google.com/m). The images above are the actual screenshot of the serach result of "godzilla" on Yahoo oneSearch and Google's new search.

Also see this interesting comparison (pdf): Dare to Compare - Google vs. Yahoo!

Sweet! Apple's iPhone

Wi-Fi, Bluetooth 2.0, Quad-Band GSM (yay! world-wide phone!), EDGE (No 3G!?)
OS X, Safari (I bet this will work just like Nokia's S60 browser.)
Collaboration with Yahoo - free IMAP email to all iPhone customers!
Google Maps and Widgets

I am hoping this will work wirh Skype, but I don't think Cingular will like it at all...

The Price:
4GB model = $499
8GB model = $599
Shipping in June!

Wait. This price is for 2-year contract with Cingular.... I knew it...

Source: Gizmodo

Google/Yahoo! SMS

Send SMS to somebody's phone From PC:
Google Send To Phone
Yahoo! Mobile (Send Message from Your PC)

Send SMS to Google from mobile phone:

1. Start a new text message and type in your search query
2. Send the message to the number "46645" (GOOGL)
3. You'll receive text message(s) with results

Tip: For help send the word 'help' as a text message to 46645.

What you can search with Google SMS:

• Business listings (Sample Query: pizza 10013)
• Residential listings from PhoneBook(Sample Query: john smith palo alto ca)
• Driving Directions (Sample Query: pasadena ca to santa monica)
• Movie Showtimes (Sample Query: king kong 94103)
• Weather (Sample Query: wx houston tx)
• Stock Quotes (Sample Query: wmt for Wal-Mart)
• Q&A (Sample Query: population of Japan)
• Product Prices (Sample Query: Price ipod 20gb)
• Definitions (Sample Query: d crepuscular)
• Sports (Sample Query: chicago bulls)
• More useful information (Caluculator, Translation, Currency conversion, Area code look-up, Zip code look-up)

Yahoo! Tech

Yahoo! has launched a new tech products site, called Yahoo! Tech. This site is just like CNet but this utilizes fancy Web2.0 technologies like Flash and Ajax-enabled dynamic components, with nicely designed UI that makes user-experience painless.

What makes this site so Web2.0 is that the serach filter and sort functions that allows users to select manifactures/brands, price ranges, and other choices with slider, and allows to rate the products they own.

I'd say this site is one of the best demo to show off what they are doing with Yahoo! Design Patter Library.

(This blog entry was originally written on May 3 for my other blog and copied it on Blogger on Sept.26)