Search engines & mobile phones

The race to be the #1 mobile content player is definitely getting hot in 2006.

On January 6th Yahoo launched its Yahoo Go service - basically, their tailor-made mobile service to integrate their online content with 3G phones. So do you reckon Google wasted any time with a counter-attack? No chance. In typical Google fashion, they announced on the very same day that they’d bought their own mobile software development house (a Canadian firm called Reqwireless) in order to get a quick leg-up in this space.

Anyone observing all this could forgiven for thinking we’re experiencing the Dot Boom 2.0 right now.