jmcc

Is it worth building a searchengine exclusively for mobile web content?

Regards...jmcc

hedgefund

Of course it is. There is no Google type search engine out there. Google is not good for mobile search for it is good for browsing not for searching while on-the-go.

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mediaadvantages

I think there is a big need for a mobile search engine. Google and Yahoo are trying to be everything to everyone and this is frustrating to people and businesses I have talked to. If you search for "city" weather using yahoo on your mobile phone you will first get the info that yahoo wants to provide with their own content, then you get web results which the majority don't work for a mobile phone or look like crap. If you aren't frustrated and leave by that point you get list a mobile results and some of them don't work on all mobile phones either.

So....yes, I would say there is a huge need for a mobile search engine. Find.mobi is decent but still doesn't provide only mobile results from my research.

cobo

"Build it and they will come".

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klm390

Not to take away from your efforts or intentions jmcc, but everyone needs to remember Boing.mobi

Pred

not so much a search engine, but more and more cool sites coming along offering databases and directory listings of sites. here's a cool one:
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jmcc

I'm just sounding out the idea at the moment. However I do have some resources and experience that boing.mobi and others do not have. I've built a country level search engine before and solved a lot of the geolocation issues that still cause problems for Google/Yahoo/Microsoft (GYM). It is good to be aware of other potential players and I'd probably would not have found out about boing.mobi until I'd been half-way through building the SE. It seems to be searching only 1583 documents.

So basically, an exclusively mobile web content SE that serves pages in mobile device/mobi format with good geolocation is needed. That's what I wanted to know. I had a design for a mobile web searchengine outlined in 2004 but the domain statistics stuff took over and I had to concentrate on that rather than developing the SE.

Regards...jmcc

hedgefund

I guess it is just a bot/crawler, it does not have a algorithm as google does. I may be wrong though.

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webecri

Take a look at my mStart.mobi

Its a simple creation with only .mobi results... This is the way how Google should make their mobile search engine... Only .mobi

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NewWorldArk

Very Nice.

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weblord

if you find the mobile audience for it, then building it is profitable
but allot money for the promotion as well, as you are catering to elite fews
source:
http://searchenginewatch.com/showPage.html?page=3624288