Ask Jeeves has announced its intention to offer a mobile search engine. The new engine will be specialized for mobile devices rather than just allowing the web version to be accessed by mobiles. “A lot of search players have put traditional Web search on to wireless devices, but most of the Web pages you want to go to aren’t rendered properly on a wireless device screen. So we’re looking at rolling out specific search services for the wireless device,” he said. For example, likely information Ask Jeeves could make available from its search arsenal to wireless devices includes local business listings and maps, Read said.” (from SearchEngineWatch
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