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Recently Yahoo! launched a complete re-design of its mobile web search and it is really good with great functionality.  Saying it is a web search page is not doing it any justice, I would say it is more of a complete information portal.  Yahoo! has been able to seamlessly incorporate OneSearch, OnePlace, and OneConnect togther offering a positive end-user starting point for mobile search .  The best experience for Yahoo! mobile search because of the infinite customization options (and hence very long starting page) happen on the iPhone with its ‘easy scrolling’ ability.  But the Yahoo! mobile offering for java based smart phones looks very nice too.

Mobile search, is said by some industry observers to be a ‘second chance’ for second tier engines to recapture their glory, but my guess is that will only happen if Google somehow makes a massive mistake.  With Googles seemingly infinite monetary and human resources I doubt that will be the case.  My feeling is that Google will own a similar percentage of mobile search as it does in traditional search.

This would come in handy if the Internet goes down for good.

Hahahaha

Around a year and a half ago Google unleashed its’ wrath on general web directories.  With bolts of lightning (not quite but just as painful to the directory owners) it struck down the page rank of some of the best know directories for buying links.  Let’s see how they have faired 18 months later.

http://www.ewebpages.org/ still sitting at page rank 0

http://cdhnow.com/ stuck on page rank 0

http://www.dirspace.com/ zero it is

http://www.linkforever.net/ zero page rank bar love

and it goes on and on….it seems that almost all of these directories have remained in Google’s ‘bad’ list and in addition to having their page rank stipped they also don’t rank for their domain names.

One in the list that stands out and seems to have found a way to get back into Googles graces is http://www.avivadirectory.com/ they have a page rank four and also rank for their domain name, with site links no-less.  I know from reading the webmaster boards that the owner of avivadirectory put in a ton of time trying to rectify the problems that landed them in hot water with Google and it looks like they found the magic formula (perhaps an ebook is in the works).