Medical Aid Goes Mobile: Where is the Nearest Emergency Room?

That DigitalCyclone's business includes weather reports for mobile devices is perhaps not surprising, given its name. More unusual, however is a new service offering in the medical realm: ER Finder uses GPS or ZIP codes to locate the nearest emergency room, news.com reports.

Yahoo Claims Answers, Not Links Coming Soon

According to a BusinessWeek feature titled 'The Battle for Mobile Search', Yahoo's Senior Director of Global Mobile Products, Ojas Rege, claims that

Yahoo also plans to expand its oneSearch product, launched in January, 2007, so that all mobile searches performed on Yahoo will return information that users want, rather than a bunch of links.

That would certainly be in the interest of the users.

Best Mobile Search Sites

Here is my collected list of mobile search links for you to enjoy:

• Google Mobile Search [US|UK|US local]
  
• Yahoo! Mobile Search
  
• Yahoo SMS Search [US only]
  
• Microsoft Windows Live mobile search
  
• AOL Mobile Search Portal
  
• Technorati Blog Search for Mobiles
  

Mobile Monday & Mobile Search

If you are interested in the mobile industry, one of the things that you should not miss are the Mobile Monday events in London. Here is the video recording of their recent gathering of Mobile Monday on Search.

Welcome to The Mobile Searcher

Welcome. Searching for information on the move is very different from stationary search (such as a search carried out from your home PC), and that difference is not accommodated by current Web search engines. The Mobile Searcher was started to document progress in, comment on the insufficiency of, and to propose solutions for mobile search, i.e. Internet search from mobile devices.

Note that the title is intentionally ambiguous, as Mobile Searcher can be read as "somebody who searches with a mobile (device)" but also as "somebody who is mobile and searches for something", thus indicating the relevance of place in mobile search.