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Mobile Search

The Pondering Primate has a lot on his mind these days. Chief amongst these thoughts are the implications of there being more Internet enabled mobile phones than PC’s. Specifically, what will happen when more mobile search requests occur from mobile phones than PC’s. The Primate reflects n John Battelle’s predictions for 2005, of note #10,


10. A third party platform player with major economies of scale (ie eBay or Amazon) will release a search related innovation that blows everyone’s mind, and has everyone buzzing about how it redefines what’s possible in search.

For those unfamiliar, John Batelle is a well known search-engine industry blogger. Well, at least that is the best shortest description of John Batelle I can give you. I read his blog daily and am a better blogger for it. But, back to mobile search business.

We have discussed the future of the mobile Internet before on FlynnMobile. The mobile Internet is also known as “Phase #2 of the Internet.” The concept that John offers to us in his swami-like prediction for 2005 is that a major Internet player (eBay, Amazon, Google, Apple, or Microsoft) will unveil a new search tool. This new search tool will revolutionize the way people search on the Internet. Search is not only important to find things but is also very important for advertisers to get their message out to people.

The Primate hints at what they think this new search tool will be by reminding us of 3 things,

* 1.) Search is the vehicle of choice for advertisers right now
* 2.) There are more cell phones than PC’s
* 3.) There are more web enabled mobile devices than PC’s


For those of you that made it this far its time to give out the spoiler and reveal this new search tool. Are you ready? Ok, here it is, the new search tool will be a cell phone. Yup, a cell phone. Not much of a surprise answer at FlynnMobile, right? I mean it is a cell phone weblog afterall.

This will not be an ordinary cell phone though. This new search tool will be a cell phone + digital camera. The digital camera will allow cell phone users to snap a photo of the ubiquitous barcode and have their cell phone retrieve info about that product from the Internet. Much the way that Scoble describes in this piece on the future of mobile search. Think of the cell phone of the future as the next pointer kinda like how your mouse is currently your desktop PC pointer.
SOURCE
http://www.flynnmobile.com/fm_archives/2005/01/05/09/15/mobile-search/