September 14, 2005
Yahoo shopping launches mobile search
After google going beta with its Froogle Mobile on google lab. Its yahoo’s turn to do the matching game and launch yahoo mobile shopping search.
“On the heels of the release of Yahoo! Shopping APIs, we at Yahoo! Shopping have developed our own application based on those very web services. It’s a great example of the innovation that can happen when building on our open APIs.
We’re delighted to announce the availability of our new Shopping Search on Mobile. Yahoo! Shopping Search on Mobile (Beta) allows you to price compare product prices from your mobile phone, accessing our database of millions of offers.
Simply enter http://shop.yahoo.com into your WAP 2.0-enabled browser, search for a product, and start comparing. Check your phone’s user manual to see if it’s WAP 2.0-enabled.”
User does not have to enter a different address for mobile shopping search for WAP phones. If http://shop.yahoo.com in your web browser it goes to http://shopping.yahoo.com doing a redirect depeing upon the device that is being used, unlike google where you have to enter a different address http://wml.froogle.com/
Yahoo has a post on its blog about this mobile shopping search.
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