Yahoo! oneSearch for Mobile

Yahoo oneSearch for Mobile became available today for mobile phones everywhere. oneSearch is Yahoo’s new mobile portal offering which aggregates Yahoo! content, including search, local, mail, messenger, flickr, news, sports, finance, entertainment, movies, and weather. With an easy-to-read, easy-to-scroll-through display, Yahoo! oneSearch wants to be your mobile homepage.

I can tell you, this certainly beats the T-Mobile tzones homepage; but it’s not enough to beat a cell phone carrier’s homepage — Yahoo wants to beat Google to be mobile users’ homepage of choice. Prominently displayed on the oneSearch internet website is a link that begs you to "dare to compare" their mobile search to that of Google. Surprisingly, this doesn’t link to a half-hearted web page of bullet points or an "Us" vs "Them" chart. Oh no. The link actually takes you to a 21-page PDF of search comparisons with screenshots of both Google and Yahoo search results. "Dare to Compare" makes its point - the Yahoo results are everything mobile search is meant to be - and that’s something coming from this Google girl. I’m heading to m.yahoo.com now.

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