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Video search – timing is all as the ecosystem evolves
Trying to locate and watch videos on a mobile phone is yet another painful and frustrating user experience. In the first instance, various service providers do their best to limit users’ search to the material in their library that they can charge for.

Mobile search face off 2007 – Google, Yahoo! MSN, AOL vs Medio Systems, JumpTap, Infospace, FAST and MCN
Mobile search divides into two streams – the main Internet search brands and white label search providers. The former were undoubtedly the winners in 2007, continuing to gain traction within operators’ portals. However, unlike the preceding year, operators viewed allegiances with the Internet brands more as a me-too, box ticking exercise than, rather than an urgent must-have.

Google lags, ChaCha’s investors blunder
End of year figures concerning Google’s apparently unstoppable rise online make eye-popping reading.

MCN teams with Yahoo! Japan, but what are the implications?
MCN has announced that its Uta Search music service will be available for the Yahoo! Japan search service. Yahoo! Japan Mobile is a subsidiary of Yahoo! Japan, which boasts 100 million page views per day and provides mobile service to the NTT DoCoMo iMode and KDDI/au networks. The two networks collectively have 80m subscribers.

Opera Mini 4: a user’s experience
I got off to a sticky start in my trial of the latest version of Opera Mini because these are the options the site gives you when you go to install it: