"Leave no stone unturned" seems to have been added to Google's list of unofficial mottos. The search giant is now going after a very well-defined (and rather small) portion of people in a certain market with a new version of its mobile YouTube application.
On the last day of 2008, Vodafone, the mobile telecommunications company, had 289 million customers. Now, a new report indicates that Yahoo might be on its way to becoming Vodafone's default search provider in Europe.
Google, Yahoo, and Microsoft might do well to keep their sights set on the mobile market, according to The Kelsey Group. A fresh report forecasts that U.S. mobile local search ad revenues (along with U.S. mobile ad revenues as a whole) will increase by an astounding amount over the next four years.
CEOs can be terribly stiff, always either reading from statements or phrasing things in the most cautious and neutral way possible. Steve Ballmer doesn't suffer from this problem, however, and the Microsoft CEO mocked Google's Android operating system while at an investor briefing in Australia.
A substantial mobile search market has long been incorrectly heralded as something that's right around the corner. But according to The Kelsey Group, significant progress has been made in the past year, and given another 24 months, the market may finally be ready to materialize in full.
Reports indicate that Motorola may be preparing to lay off thousands of employees, and this doesn't bode well for all sorts of projects and divisions. However, it seems that Google's Android is being regarded as a potential company-saver, since it should both survive the cuts and become a central focus.
The Android Developer Challenge has ended, and there's no doubt that it worked out well for developers - ten teams each received $275,000 awards and another ten got $100,000 apiece. Things seem to be headed in the right direction for Android users, too.
Google's great at mobile search, according to Juniper Research. The UK-based telecoms analyst firm declared Google the top winner within that category of its Future Mobile Awards.
"Don't panic" seems to be the underlying message Google sent to users of YouTube's mobile site. Just the same, the main point Google communicated earlier today is that an experiment involving ads is underway.
About once a month, Google comes up with some neat new feature for mobile phones. It's never much compared to certain search and mapping innovations, and the things tend to receive little notice from any mainstream audience. But Eric Schmidt is still betting on mobile in a big way.
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